"The defect of specialised training, eh?"
"Possibly: like over-specialisation in the trades."
"Cutting threads on screws for thirty years," said I.
"Shall we say the same thing of theology? Most men may overtrain in that."
"They do. Therefore try mixing science with it."
"That must dilute theology. A little too much science, and the theology becomes watery. But in the Roman Church they dilute the science."
"Don't you think it depressing to listen to Carnegie's cant about his intention to die poor?" I asked. "What else could he do? He says nothing about living as a poor man. Poverty is a 'blessing' that we all recognise in essays, sermons, and speeches, but we use all the strength we can to avoid the blessing, and we don't delude the poor with our pretences. All of us like to use money as a force. Perhaps you would call it a mode of motion."
"That sounds like Moody," said Drummond. "There 's the other side," he went on, "the deadly monotony of the lives of the average rich folk, deadly monotony, a weary existence dragged along without any interest in useful things. Take an interest in things; that is the way to live; not merely think about them. No man has a right to postpone his life for the sake of his thoughts. This is a real world, not a think world. Treat it as a real world—act!"
"That is from your 'Programme of Christianity'," said I.
"Yes. The might of those who build is greater than the might of those who retard."