The young monk who makes his vows at Gethsemani in this unusual moment of crisis and transition is therefore exposing himself to something far more than the ordinary vicissitudes of a Trappist monastery. He is walking into a furnace of ambivalence which nobody in the monastery can fully account for and which is designed, I think, to serve as a sign and a portent to modern America. The phenomenon which has suddenly happened at Gethsemani came about without anybody’s foreseeing it and without anyone making any logical attempt to control it. It was apparently beyond foreseeing and beyond control,
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The context of this book wonders that if the monastery becomes mechanized what will happen
