True, the Christian Church still lives on. But it is only a living power in small groups. Some of its apparent strength is due to its inherited wealt… - Neville Figgis

Man is so made that he cannot be satisfied with less than the highest, and that he must be beaten down before he can be raised up.

In the days of their triumph the Netherlands became the University of Europe; if we remove from the first half of the seventeenth century the thinkers, publicists, theologians, men of science, artists and gardeners who were Dutch, and take away their influence upon other nations, the record would be barren instead of fertile, despite the great name of Bacon.

The naturalistic theory of Christianity takes on different colours with the temperament of the speaker. From the hysterical contempt of Nietzsche, the hostility of writers like Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Sturt, we may pass through almost every stage of increasing admiration, with one great proviso, that Jesus is not to be worshipped as God.