Excerpt from Philosophy and the Christian Religion: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on May 4, 1920 The Oriel worthies whom I have named were linked together not only by the bond of academic tradition but by a mastering love of righteousness, which made them all in their philosophy of religion emphasize above every thing else the connexion of Religion with Morality and also by a certain austere melancholy in their outlook upon life, which, if more obvious in Butler and in New man than in ...
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Excerpt from Philosophy and the Christian Religion: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on May 4, 1920 The Oriel worthies whom I have named were linked together not only by the bond of academic tradition but by a mastering love of righteousness, which made them all in their philosophy of religion emphasize above every thing else the connexion of Religion with Morality and also by a certain austere melancholy in their outlook upon life, which, if more obvious in Butler and in New man than in Matthew Arnold, whose keen wit and gay persiflage may sometimes cheat the student of his theo logical works into misapprehension of his true temper, is yet plain enough to the sympathetic reader of his poetry. The story is well known which tells how Butler was walking with his chaplain Dr. Foster when he suddenly turned towards him and with much earnestness said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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