The Religion of Time and the Religion of Eternity: Being a Study of Certain Relations Between Mediaval and Modern Thought (Classic Reprint)

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Though the purpose of this essay is entirely constructive, the writer is aware that he has occasionally fallen into a controversial tone; and though his aim has been to deal with spiritual realities, he is conscious of having put forward many historical judgments which may be Open to legitimate challenge.

There may be readers who will detect his ignorance of periods of human thought a know ledge of which might have corrected one-sided views and shown him that the thing he goes over the sea of centuries to fetch lies near at hand in the very regions where he says that it is not. Others may smile at his insistence on what has always been very nigh unto them in their mind and in their heart and seems to need no enforcing. And yet others may see neither vital power in the ideals he sets forth, nor defect in those he attacks.

Indeed it may well be that he has really given nothing but a chapter of his own spiritual autobiography, while believing himself to be tracing movements in the world's thought. Yet even so, if anyone has been able in maturity to reach what he believes to be clearer thought and higher vitality than his youthful period of storm and stress brought to him, the record of the path he has trodden may be of help or of interest to others. Defects of knowledge and distortions of view will be corrected by the better informed or the more thoughtful; but a certain human interest will still attach to a human experience. The gates of life are many, but life is one.

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