The great merit of this biography by E.E. Reynolds is that it vividly portrays the whole More, his spiritual life as well as his court, family, social, and intellectual activity. More brought his religion into the smallest detail of his life. He is the ideal saint for the modern layman, and in these pages we see why. He lived the Faith-before dying for it. ""Thomas More is more important at this moment than at any moment since his death, even perhaps the great moment of his dying; but he is not quite as important as he will be in about a hundred years' time. he may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or at least the greatest historical character in English history." G.K. Chesterton