[17] The Mystical Element of Religion, vol. ii, p. 265.
The author quotes Kant—“we can be mediately conscious of an apprehension as to which we have no distinct consciousness.” “The field of our obscure apprehensions,—that is, apprehensions and impressions of which we are not directly conscious, although we can conclude without doubt that we have them—is immeasureable, whereas clear apprehensions constitute but a very few points within the complete extent of our mental life.”
[18] “Literature consists of those writings which interpret the meanings of nature and life in words of charm and power, touched with the personality of the author, in artistic forms of permanent interest.”—Van Dyke’s The Spirit of America, p. 242.
[19] “The wealthy class in Rome and all over Italy began to conform to that conventional code of propriety by which the rich seem always destined, in the progress of civilization, to become more and more enslaved, till finally they lost all feeling for what is serious and genuine in life. The new generation followed their example with alacrity, and preached the new conventions with a passionate vehemence which must have been highly exasperating to those of their seniors who were still attached to the simplicity of primitive manners. Amongst those who protested against this development there was, however, one prominent figure of the younger age, Marcus Porcius Cato, a man of rich and noble family, and a descendant of Cato the Censor. His puritan spirit revolted against the tyranny of fashion to which the golden youth of Rome wished to make him conform; he would walk in the streets without shoes or tunic, to accustom himself, as he said, only to blush at things which were shameful in themselves, and not merely by convention.”—Ferrero’s Greatness and Decline of Rome, vol. i, pp. 135, 136.
[20] Kipling’s If—.
[21] Doncaster’s Heredity in the Light of Recent Research (1910), p. 113 ff.
[22] Crashaw.
[23] A hypothesis receives passively our quest: God moves to meet us.
[24] Newman in his Dream of Gerontius endows the disembodied soul with perceptive powers analogous to those of the body, saying only the sense of sight. Thus:
Soul. “I cannot of thy music rightly say