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… very interesting. But the main fact about it is that it is the expression of a man who has really found Buddhism more satisfactory than Christianity. Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intent to explain the beauty of the Buddhist philosophy ; he knows a great deal about it ; he believes in it. But as he went on writing one thing became stronger and stronger in his soul — the living hatred of Christianity. Before he has finished he has descended to the babyish “ difficulties ” of the Hall of Science — things about “ the pla…
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
…ward. Repartee apart, it is surely an ascertainable fact that while the first 29 pages are almost exclusively occupied with an attack on Christianity as bitter and violent as I can make it, the remaining 161 are composed of (a) an attack on materialism, (b) an essay in metaphysics 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 E…
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
…rn hope which was lacking in those initial manœvers which decided the fortune of the day. Hence comes it that Our Reviewer’s apology for Christianity compares so favourably with the methods of ponderous blunder on which people like Paley and Gladstone have relied. But alas ! the very vivacity of the attack may leave the column without that support which might enable it, if checked, to retire in good order ; and it is with true pity for a gallant opponent — who would be wiser to surrender—that I find myself compelled to despatch half a squadron …
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…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 all means nothing…