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…NTITLED A CHILD OF EPHRAIM* CHESTERTON’S COLOSSAL COLLAPSE * The Children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
… no business to take the Bible literally ! ” I have dealt with this contention at some length in the “ Sword of Song ” itself (Ascension Day, lines 216 to 247) : but here I will simply observe that a poem which authorises the Archbishop of Canterbury to convey Dr. Clifford’s pet trowels, and makes possible the Gilbertian (in the old sense of pertaining to W. S. Gilbert) position of the Free Kirk to-day, is a poem which had better be burnt, as the most sensible man of his time proposed to do with Homer, or at least left to the collector, as I be…
… hated. Next week I hope to make a fuller study of Mr. Crowley’s interpretation of Buddhism, for I have not room for it in this column today. Suffice it for the moment to say that if this be indeed a true interpretation of the creed, as it is certainly a capable one, I need go no further than its pages for examples of how a change of abstract belief might break a civilisation to pieces. Under the influ- ence of this book earnest modern philosophers may, I think, begin to perceive the outlines of two vast and mystical philosophies, which if they…