PREFACE
All the Essays in this volume, except the first, have appeared in the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly Review, or the Hibbert Journal. I have to thank the Publishers and Editors of those Reviews for their courtesy in permitting me to reprint them. The articles on The Birth-Rate, The Future of the English Race, Bishop Gore and the Church of England, and Cardinal Newman are from the Edinburgh Review; those on Patriotism, Catholic Modernism, St. Paul, and The Indictment against Christianity are from the Quarterly Review; those on Institutionalism and Mysticism and Survival and Immortality from the Hibbert Journal. I have not attempted to remove all traces of overlapping, which I hope may be pardoned in essays written independently of each other; but a few repetitions have been excised.
CONTENTS
| [PREFACE] | |
| CHAPTER I | [OUR PRESENT DISCONTENTS] |
| CHAPTER II | [PATRIOTISM] |
| CHAPTER III | [THE BIRTH-RATE] |
| CHAPTER IV | [THE FUTURE OF THE ENGLISH RACE] |
| CHAPTER V | [ BISHOP GORE AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND] |
| CHAPTER VI | [ROMAN CATHOLIC MODERNISM] |
| CHAPTER VII | [CARDINAL NEWMAN] |
| CHAPTER VIII | [ST. PAUL] |
| CHAPTER IX | [INSTITUTIONALISM AND MYSTICISM] |
| CHAPTER X | [THE INDICTMENT AGAINST CHRISTIANITY] |
| CHAPTER XI | [SURVIVAL AND IMMORTALITY] |
λθακα ψευδἡ λἑγω,
ἡ σκλἡρ' ἁληθἡ; φρἁζε, ση γαρ ἡ κρἱσιϛ.
Euripides.
The case of historical writers is hard; for if they tell the truth they provoke man, and if they write what is false they offend God.—Matthew Paris.
Quattuor sunt maxime comprehendendae veritatis offendicula; videlicet, fragilis et indignae auctoritatis exemplum, consuetudinis diuturnitas, vulgi sensus imperiti, et propriae ignorantiae occultatio cum ostentatione sapientiae superioris.—Roger Bacon.
Iudicio perpende; et si tibi vera videntur,
Dede manus; aut si falsum est, accingere contra.
Lucretius.