Lessons for the Day (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lessons for the DayBut the facts are now virtually assumed as \a starting-point in the statement which more than any other work of our time vindicates Christianity from the charge of being unable to produce an original mind, or to inspire a searching self-criticism. The volume to which I refer is entitled Natural Relzgz'on, by the author of Ecce Homo. This author is known to be Professor Seeley, who fills the chair of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. That traces of the cloister may not be found in the book need not be affirmed - the freest thinker is not free from such but there is nothing perfunctory in the heart of a work which frankly declares that there is a total want of correspondence between the views of the people and the system under which they live, that while the artist, the literary man, the scientist have a living religion, the Christian priest can only be silent, it is the penalty he suffers for having allowed himself to believe that the Eternal, who used in old time to teach man by successive revelations, has long since ceased to do so.Although this author sees the perils arising from the decay of faith in advance of the reconstitution of religion on a wider basis, he has not written a new book of Lamentations. Instead of a jeremiad, here is an isaiad, so to say - a brave recognition of all the facts and a hopeful dealing with them. His courage shames alike theological and philosophical pessimism, while his moral earnestness rebukes clerical and sceptical complacency.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.