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But taking the worst and most iconoclastic as true, are we compelled even then to surrender our Christian faith? "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth." Surely this remains untouched and in full force. Huxley, to requote what has before been quoted, says: "I can not see one tittle of evidence that the great unknown stands to us in the light of a Father."
Like the plain man, the philosopher gives the poet a chance to vindicate his usefulness. Plato's challenge is not so age-worn that we may not requote it. He makes Socrates say, in the Republic, And we may further grant to those of her defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets the permission to speak in prose on her behalf.
Taken as a whole, the evidence is decidedly in favor of the remote love, prevented in some way from reaching its culmination. To requote Alfred Noyes, the poet knows that ideal love must be In Sister Songs Francis Thompson asserts that such remoteness is essential to his genius: I deem well why life unshared Was ordained me of yore.
Now first, is his statement true? Are these the only things which he ridiculed? I quoted in my reply to him enough to show what was the class of "things pertaining to God" to which I referred. He forces me to requote some of the passages.
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