Mr. Gladstone and Genesis
Mr. Gladstone and Genesis
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ce of any
real answer to my criticisms in Mr. Gladstone's reply. For I
must honestly confess that, notwithstanding long and painful
strivings after clear insight, I am still uncertain whether Mr.
Gladstone's "Defence" means that the great "plea for a
revelation from God" is to be left to perish in the dialectic
desert; or whether it is to be withdrawn under the protection of
such skirmishers as are available for covering retreat.
In particular, the remarkable disquisition which covers pages 11 to 14 of Mr. Gladstone's last contribution has greatly exercised my mind. Socrates is reported to have said of the works of Heraclitus that he who attempted to comprehend them should be a "Delian swimmer," but that, for his part, what he could understand was so good that he was disposed to believe in the excellence of that which he found unintelligible. In endeavouring to make myself master of Mr. Gladstone's meaning in these pages, I have often been overcome by a feeling analogous to that of Socrates, but not quite
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