Note 64 — Front matter
Reading edition
Without charity there is no perfect virtue, since without it no virtue can lead man to his final end, which is God, although it may lead him to some lower end. It is in this sense that, according to the older theologians, charity is the "form" of the other virtues, since by it the acts of all the other virtues are supernaturalized and directed to their true end—i.e., to God. Cf. St. Th. "Sum.," 2, 2ae, q. 23, aa. 7, 8.