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.
Он жил (не сознавая этого) теми духовными истинами, которые он всосал с молоком, а думал не только не признавая этих истин, но старательно обходя их.