Category: Philosophy & Ethics
THERE is a well known story of how a man of letters a century ago, when questioned as to his religious views, answered that all sensible men were of one religion, and to the further query as to what that religion might be, made the curt response: "Sir, sensible men never say."...
"THE Finger of God," wrote once Sir Thomas Browne, "hath left an inscription upon all His works." We have little skill to read that wondrous message, but from the very dawn of h...
3. CHAPTER III. THE PROPHET IN THE CHURCH.FOR the individual and the community alike the deepest influences are expressed in life rather than words, yet it remains true that through the symbols of spoken thought life mu...
8. CHAPTER VIII: THE ANSWER OF FAITHCENTURIES ago, in a far-off Eastern land, a philosopher poet set to verse the sad music of his heart's doubts and longings, and the cry that rings again and again through his po...
1. CHAPTER I. THE COMMON BASIS OF RELIGIOUS LIFE.THERE is a well known story of how a man of letters a century ago, when questioned as to his religious views, answered that all sensible men were of one religion, and to the fur...
7. CHAPTER VII: PRIESTS AND PONTIFFSSOME day we may hope to see among our great national museums one made to illustrate the religions of the world, from the rudest rites of the savage to the highest developments o...
10. CHAPTER X.: THE PATH TO UNITY.A GREAT patristic scholar who, though a lover of theology, is also a lover of his fellow-men, has related how, journeying across the lonely desert of Arabia the Rocky towards th...
2. CHAPTER II. THE INNER LIFE OF THE CHURCHIT is difficult for us, and some may even feel that it is impossible, to make an impartial survey of an institution of which we ourselves form a part; on the other hand, it is e...
9. CHAPTER IX.: THE HOUSE OF PEACE.THE sense of ancient peace, the quiet beauty of the ruined abbeys which Turner and many a lesser artist loved to paint, must often have come home to many who visit them, who hav...
6. CHAPTER VI: INSTITUTIONS AND INSPIRATIONONE of the strangest and sometimes perhaps one of the saddest things that the student of history comes to realize must surely be that law which seems to doom every great ideal a...
5. CHAPTER V: SOME OF NATURE'S SACRAMENTSTHE life of words is like in some ways to the life of men; the soul changes within them, though the form remains the same. Yet while language is still living it may regain somet...