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…as better poetry than this Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhist mood ; but this also, though very affected, is 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…
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
… who would be wiser to surrender—that I find myself compelled to despatch half a squadron (no more !) to take him in flank. Our Author’s main argument for the Christian religion is that it is hated. To bring me as a witness to this colossal enthymeme, he has the sublime cou- rage to state that my “ Sword of Song ” begins with an effort to expound Buddhism, but that my hatred of Christianity overcame me as I went on, and
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…ho 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 in this connection, for the terms of the criticism require the same reservation. Our Tamburlaine’sI subsequent remark that the poor infidel (failing in his desperate attempt to be ag…