In this endeavour he met with vigorous opponents.
This time, however, the endeavour to make up for lost time was unavailing.
This post he resigned in 1812, mainly on account of the difficulties he experienced in his endeavour to reform the student life of the university.
In the absence of all external evidence respecting the formation of the canon, we are driven to internal evidence in our endeavour to fix the dates at which these three collections were thus canonized.
This endeavour is the third great characteristic of Ultramontanism.
