These include a Catholic mind that takes seriously Adam Smith's economic and philosophical insights; the affirmation that markets must be grounded upon particular
moral, political, and legal habits and institutions; the attention to how awareness of the reality of sin should incubate us against economic utopianism; and, perhaps above all, the sustained
effort to locate democratic capitalism within a vision of God and man, thereby
giving it genuine theological meaning.
In Found, a modern subject with a
moral, he made his most serious
effort to
give expression to the Pre-Raphaelite aims, but this picture, though he worked on it at intervals throughout his life, was never finished.