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…army. The army itself is pretty well out of sight. There is a puff of artillery from afar to the effect that “ no man can contrive to be agnostic about Christianity.” This is very blank cartridge. Who is agnostic about the shape of the earth ? Who prides himself upon a profound reserve about the colour of a blue pig, or hesitates to maintain that grass is green ? Unless under the reservation that both subject and predicate are Unknowable in their essence, and that the copula of identity is but a convention — a form of Agnosticism which after al…
1904 · PDF PAGE 2
…o the endless series of testimo- nies to the fascination and vitality of the faith. For some mysterious reason no man can contrive to be agnostic about Christianity. He always tries to prove something about it — that it is unphilosophical or immoral or disastrous — which is not true. He can never say simply that it does not convince him — which is true.
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
…taphysics opposing advaitism, (c) an attempt to demonstrate the close analogy between the canonical Buddhist doctrine and that of modern Agnostics. None of these deal with Christianity at all, save for a chance and casual word. I look forward with pleasure to a new History of England, in which it will be pointed out how the warlike enthusiasm aroused by the Tibetan expedition led to the disastrous plunge into the Boer War ; disastrous because he separa- tion of the Transvaal which resulted therefrom left us so weak that we fell an easy prey to …
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
…ore Liseux. Immoral is indeed no word for it. It is as criminal as the riddle in “ Pericles.” That our Pantosympatheticist is himself an Agnostic does not excuse him. True, if every one thought as he does there would be no formal religion in the world, but only that individual communion of the consciousness with its self- consciousness which constitutes genuine religion, and should never inflame passion or inspire intolerence, since the non-Ego lies beyond its province. But he knows as well as I do that there are thousands in this country who w…