Er hatte (ohne sich dessen bewußt zu sein) gelebt auf der Grundlage jener geistigen Wahrheiten, die er mit der Muttermilch eingesogen hatte; aber wenn er begonnen hatte zu denken, hatte er diese Wahrheiten verleugnet und geflissentlich umgangen.
He had lived (without being conscious of it) by those spiritual truths which he had imbibed with his mother's milk; but in thought he had not only not acknowledged those truths, but had studiously evaded them.