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This Believing H/orld, by Lezvis Brozone. New York: The Macmillan Company. ~3.5o. T HIS is a book in the Van Loon tradition, written in a turgid, would-he impressive style, and...
...Anything like a definitive treatment of the many-sided achievements and complex per-sonality of Saint Thomas, the teacher, the mystic, the poet, the theologian, and the philosopher--this, of course, is still to seek...
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...It has an atmosphere in which appearance and reality merge-- become lost in a vague dream...
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...Who was once on earth but now is in the skies...
...A sharper delineation in his character-drawing, and a more con-elusive handling of events that are nov," left at loose ends, would have given his novel a clearer-cut outline, and consequently a heightened power...
...Thus he commences by attempting to account for the origin of the idea of God by the animistic theory of Tyler, put forward more than half a century ago, and since then subjected to a battery of hostile criticism...
...The title page and index for volume IV of The Common-weal are now ready...
...To proceed thus in thought from the relative to the absolute would, however, be impossible were all the reality which we know on one dead level...
...and so charmingly has he put together his light masquerade, that it still entertains on second reading...
...GEORGE N. SHUSTER...
...As a repository of accumulated information, the book really has no rival and it is difficult to imagine that the printer could do more for Sappho without neglecting the limitations of the average purse...
...A certain distrust of emotion and of the merely subjective has always characterized the domestic tradition of the Society of Jesus, a fact that accounts perhaps for the confidence and re-spect given to Jesuit ascetical and mystical writers even by those who are not attracted by the distinctive ethos of that great order...
...the prayer of contemplation must be infused from on high...
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...Everything that is at all must manifestly have its share of be- ing, but we ourselves and the whole temporal world possess being in a state of becoming, transitional, incomplete...
...T HOUGH its illustrations, except when they are from old paintings, engravings and maps, axe rather disappoint- ing, this book is excellently printed and voluminously anno- tated, and is undoubtedly the best of the readily accessible editions of the famous travels...
...but the author certainly supplies his cause with an arsenal of powerful weapons...
...I intend neither to explain the findings of science nor to justify the dogmas of Catholicity, for this is not an apologetic, but a cleaning up of dark corners...
...Nevertheless, the scope of the work is so broad and its theme of such universal im- portance that the volume possesses an interest transcending that which the distinguished author had particularly in view...
...Unfortunately, this mood treatment, to some extent, has mastered Mr...
...The slim native men still climb (with a cord tied between their ankles to confirm their grip) the Palmyra palm-trees to draw out of the stems of the fan-shaped leaves the sap which, after it has fermented, becomes the toddy they drink...
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...Perhaps the following lines from Futility may serve to illustrate an unusual book: "Bleak lies the moonlight on the sea tonight, And bleak its pathway stretches toward the rim, Where earth meets time upon a threshold dim, And time's eternal hour makes mock at flight...
...He believed in the survival of the soul, and he made offerings for the use of that soul...
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...Boston is still the home of Irish singers: its traditions stretch from the days of John Boyle O'Reilly and James Jeffrey Roche...
...T HE Two Sisters, by H. E. Bates, comes to us heralded by that discriminating critic, Edward Garnett, who in the past has introduced Galsworthy, W. H. Hudson, and Conrad...
...The section on The Pauline Theology can only be completely acceptable to those who hold the doctrines of justification by faith and of total depravity, but all can admire Mr...
...T HE author of the well-known Round of Rimes, and Voices From Erin returns again to his poetical forte of the Irish ballad and lyrical fragments of heart and fancy...
...and not as a spirit at all...
...It would probably be too much to expect that the sceptic should be convinced by his arguments...
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...The unimportant and detailed documentation, general in the novel today, is avoided...
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...Sappho: The Poems and Fragments, translated and edited by C. R. Haines...
...It has a mystical quality that transmutes the material...
...He reiterates again and again that no one can become a mystic deliberately, that mystic ex- perience is a result of grace not merit, and that it is an utter mistake to expect or desire that it should be acceas~le to all...
...Withal, his is also a youthful story of the trials of affections...
...Masefield well says: "It is only the wonderful traveler who sees a wonder, and only five travelers in the world's history have seen wonders...
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...The sensi- bilities with which the sisters, Tessie and Jenny, respond to the ardors and conflicts of life with their fastidious, curious, and absorbingly passionate natures, make the involved love affair of the two sisters for Michael an unusually poignant epi- sode...
...M. Gilson indicates the historical position of Saint Thomas, at a time when the newly discovered works of Aristotle with their Arabian and Jewish commentaries had introduced tem-porary confusion into European Christian thought, and em-phasizes his historical r61e as a harmonizer of the Augustinian and Aristotelian traditions...
...Nevertheless, an astonishing masculine virility gives body to these poems...
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...The favor is refused or delayed, and magic~the black shadow of religion--appears and says: "If you won't give it to me, I'll make you !" Frazer puts the cart before the horse...
...M. Gilson follows with detailed commentary the five proofs of the existence of God offered by Saint Thomas, his demonstra- tion of the attributes of God, his conceptions of creation and of the angels, his theory of knowledge, and his ethics...
...The centre of Saint Thomas's thought he finds in his conception of being...
...Antiphonal, Sonnets, and Other Lyrics, by J. Grossan Gooper...
...All these things Polo saw, as he saw the suttees and the prostitutes in the temples and the Juggernaut cars...
...And there is much to be said for "the sparse line, for grace of outline, for the rare gift that extracts the essential word from the shallow rapids of conversations...
...This quality is manifest in a number of sonnets, but is most noticeably dominant in Antiphonal, the finest poem in the book and a really remarkable ode...
...The author, as we learn from the jacket, is a rabbi...
...Gilson is an artist as well as a philosopher...
...Working, as he claims, in strict harmony with Carmelite tradition, Monseigneur Farges expounds a perfectly definite theory as to the nature of genuine mysticism in contrast to the spurious types of pseudo- mysticism so often confounded with it...
...In brief, the aspiration and much of its artistry is such that The Two Sisters remains a solitary rival to challenge the deep feeling and perfection of craft in that singular, outstanding book of the season~The Time of Man...
...It has this fatal flaw: it starts with a man who has no idea of any such thing as a g~3d--in what has been called an atheistic race...
...Frideswide's at Oxford and finishing schools in Paris, Rome and Freibourg, are also under the supervision of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus...
...Gradually, however, in spite of the fact that the places he visited cannot always be dearly identified--though the labors of Colonel Yule have elucidated many obscure points...
...Ancestor-worship, which was a rung in the Tylerian ladder, is unknown among some races...
...There is some excellent criticism of the Hegelian philosophy in its repercussion on Christian belief in the section of the book devoted to The Theistic View of the World...
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...Alone, I watck the play of restless light, Where the hoar wave unbreasts its futile hymn And pours libation from a crumbling brim On a rock-altar drenched with useless rite...
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...Mystical theology is a branch of moral theology--the study of what man must do in order to gain salvation--as dis-tinguished from dogmatic theology--the study of what he must believe...
...who didn't know exactly who he was, or what he wanted...
...It is intense and sensitive...
...Yet the close of The Two Sisters is contrived upon a notably rendered scene, where the grief of the sisters reunites them in bonds of affection...
...Mon-seigneur Farges is nothing if not thorough...
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...That is very different from worshipping that soul, or any soul...
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...It is of the execution of eight men, who, because each had a magic amulet in his arm, between the skin and the flesh, were rendered ira- mune from the effect of iron, and so had to be beaten to death with wooden dubs...
...Carrying on with the Tylerian hypothesis, the Rabbi tells us that it was long ages before man arrived at the idea of one God--and he sets this down as if it were an incontrovertible fact...
...It was of a murderer whom they had tried to hang in the jail at Coimbatore...
...Modern anthropologists have turned to the one true path-- that of investigating actual facts...
...The others have seen birds and beasts, rivers and wastes, the earth and the (local) fulness thereof...
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...They have given an example of heroic virtue that ought never to be lost to that land to which their spirits gave their brave dust.--N...
...Religion is sup- pliant and begs a favor...
...M. Gilson virtually confines his attention to the philosopher and his philosophy but in them alone there is material for countless volumes...
...Fundamental Christianity, by F. L. Patton...
...One may contrast Father McClorey's summary of the purposes of pain, the third of which is, "to confirm us in a virtuous life," with Thomas h Kempis's less sanguine Pauci ex infirmitate meliorantur...
...In the opinion of many, they demolished the "magic" idea...
...Three valuable maps...
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...Even through the medium of translation, M. Gilson's style is crystal-dear...
...Some few years ago, that distinguished American anthro-pologist, Swanton, in a presidential address to the American Anthropological Society, said: "In the case of our regnant monotheism, it is a fair question whether it does not tie on to a belief in a sky-god, extending back to the earliest days of religion among men...
...or perhaps he is only quoting without acknowledgment the Bishop's words...
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...McCarthy is worthy of his fine predecessors...
...So far as we have as yet learned, all the facts point to an original belief in a single Supreme Being, which belief has become~en- crusted with all sorts of accretions such as animism, ancestor-worship, and the like...
...The treatment of the person and character of Christ is ameng the best writ- ing in an excellent book, and all honor is due to the author for the courageous logic of his attitude on the question of belief in Christ's Divinity...
...With regard to diabolism the author writes: "The signs of diabolical intervention are well known...
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...It is of the stuff of poetry...
...His fandful embroidery and stiff English constantly exasperate any reader accustomed to scholarship interested in being factual...
...More technically, Monseigneur Farges defines mysticism as the inti- mate union of the soul with God through the infused prayer of contemplation...
...Such, for example, are the visions, hearing of supernatural words, personal revelations and prophecies, the curious phenomena of second sight and telepathy, infused aptitude for science or art, the marvelous accompaniments to ecstasy, such as stign,.ata, radiance of the body, levitation, bilocation, freedom from physical needs such as food and drink, power over animals and the elements of nature, healings and other miracles of the mystical thaumaturges...
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...Cooper's experiments with dic-tion are also very interesting...
...Yet for a long time his book was far less popular than that of Mandeville who, when he did not steal left and right, made up as he went along the marvels that were expected of him...
...He was, of course, a much greater literary artist than Polo, and so was believed where the much greater man was discredited...
...Sturm, with his perpetual puns, was out of place in such a review...
...Bates has returned to the novel of essentials...
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...It was inevitable that when such ideas as these came to be known, it should be said that they were learned from mission- aries, or were the far-off echo of missionary teachings...
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...Bates a product of rustic England, sensitive to its solemn pastoral elements, with overtones of gloomy and fatal incidents...
...Seldom is there to be found such beautiful and simply moving prose in fiction today as that of the early pages of this novel that account for one afternoon in the childhood of Jenny Lee...
...Who rewards and punishes...
...Christ was an ignorant peasant workman who knew no Greek...
...It is a sign of the healthy vein of rationalism and of confidence in human nature distinctive of Jesuit teaching, which has caused enemies of the Jesuits to brand them as semi-Pelagian, that the present author should be slightly chary of admitting when he has reached the end of "proofs" and "confirmations" of religious dogmas...
...Cooper's delicate little book of verse are many...
...These things would matter perhaps but little, but the book is hopelessly out of date, for its author seems to be utterly unacquainted with the recent literature--vast in amount--concerning compara-tive religion...
...while Mr...
...There is also a vein of optimism about human nature, which can be noted in a very different ecclesiastical organization, the Paulist Fathers, and which marks off both bodies from the more rigidly Augustinian tradition...
...In M. Gilson's words, "Only after we have mastered both the simplicity of its principles and the multi-plicity of their consequences, and have seen these consequences issue from the fertility of the principles, do we become conscious of the very life that animates the whole teaching, and only then the teaching will really have come to life again in us...
...It has caught the doctrine as well as the ecstasy of love, and has gone from that to a view of life...
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...The Chinese are one of the oldest peoples, and their civilization as ancient as any...
...The beetlenut chewing goes on...
...in such matters scepticism and belief depend upon deeper causes than arguments...
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...How does he know, one wonders, that the monks actually burned the manuscripts or that these were really not viciously indecent...
...Yet both are refreshing and have rounded their expression with expert craft...
...God occasionally even allows him to assume the most majestic forms, such as those of Our Lord, the Blessed Virgin, or the saints...
...Yet the really primitive races, such as the aboriginal Australians, make no images or representations of the Supreme Being in whom they believe...
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...And that is exactly what it is not...
...BOOKS This Believing H/orld, by Lezvis Brozone...
...the complex hierarchy of being--on these two fundamen- tal ideas Saint Thomas built up his system of philosophy...
...In the first place, there is an almost complete denial of the contemporary world, in so far as both the noises and the poetic conventions of that world are ignored...
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...In fact, the more primitive the race, the purer the idea...
...for that we must look to some form of being beyond change and corruption, which shall possess being not temporarily or on sufferance, but eternally and in its own right...
...Thus the mystic way begins in despair and .ends in serenity...
...Again, one reads with a fancy that only personal intimacy with the author could reveal adequately the sources from which the con- stantly evident inspiration has been drawn...
...one is never halted by awkward phrase or dause but comes to grips directly with the thought itself...
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...Pattun's magnificent picture of the life and character of the Apostle of the Gentiles...
...It is in the nature of things that youth often aspires to the tragic...
...One longs to get back to essentials, especially to the essential of beauty, an element that pervades The Two Sisters...
...Sturm's The Bad Samaritan is without a flourish, yet within a week after its appearance, it was recognized that a new and delightful humorist had arrived...
...The five travelers axe Herodotus, Gasper, Melchior, Balthazer, and Marco Polo himsels The wonder of Marco Polo is this--that he created Asia for the European mind...
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...Nevertheless---for GOd could not otherwise permit it--the disguise, no matter how bold, is never complete, and he always betrays himself in some particular which cannot escape an attentive and prudent observer...
...Sturm, coming out of our Middle-West and entering our large city life, is moved to the pranks of a romantic play- boy...
...trans- lated from the second French edition by 8. P. Jacques...
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...Life there is still substantially unchanged...
...Throughout this mass of details, however, run a few leading ideas which the details are mainly invoked to enforce...
...The mud floors of the houses are still kept dean and sweet with cow-dung mixed with water...
...To contemplate God in Himself is mani- festly impossible for human beings out of their own resources...
...and I desire to speak with respect of that body of men he represents when I say that it is scarcely from among their ranks that one would expect a sympathetic account of the Founder of the Christian religion...
...This idyllic passage of nearly fifty pages has been projected with unique insight, sympathy, delicacy, and knowledge of the pure ecstasy of childhood...
...Ould Father Toomey, and Other Poems, by Denis /1...
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...McCarthy's Brigid was a poem of unusual suggestion and dramatic force, and in Ould Father Toomey, the title poem of his new col-lection, we find much of this fine reach of humor and instruc- tion...
...the emotional experience of love, while always present, results from and is dependent upon the knowl- edge...
...Haines's collection of il- lustrations is most interesting, and the carefulness with which every scrap of the old Greek is handled seems always com-mendable...
...translated by Edward Bullough...
...Thus a faint aroma of academic seclusion seems to pervade the book--an aroma intensified by the use of slightly archaic adjectives and of certain ellipses so much frowned upon by up-to-date technicians...
...The treatment of hell, based presumably on Saint Ignatius's meditation on hell according to the five senses, is probably not very effective with the people who buy and read religious works as distinguished from the simpler--and happier --souls who are influenced for good by such imaginative descrip- tiom at Lenten missions...
...For their part the sonnets, many of which deal with recondite themes in a singularly human fashion, are often distinguished for suggestive phrasing...
...Other good editions, in the Loeb Classics and elsewhere, cannot destroy the charm and richness of the present volume...
...They are straightforward and earnest tMlrs on certain basic doctrines of the Catholic faith and in reading them one feels very strongly the influence of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius, especially of the Principium et Fundamentum, dealing with the purpose of human life, with which Saint Ignatius prefaces the Exercises, and the first section or "week," devoted to the great truths of Catholic eschatology...
...Board and mesh moderate...
...The direct knowledge of God is the fun- damental dement...
...Taking into account the writer's dogmatic position, in particular his belie.~ in the doctrine of justification by faith and, as one gathers from the lecture on Saint Paul, that of the total depravity of human nature consequent on the fail, one must congratulate him on the logical consistency of his work and the lofty moral and M O N W E A L January 19, 1927 religious tone pervading it...
...Of how many books can the same be said ? GLAI)YS GRAHAM...
...If so, he could hardly choose a weaker authority, for profound knowledge of the higher mathematics, which the Bishop has, does not necessarily connote any acquaintance with the vast subject of anthropology...
...Now, as Plutarch said centuries before Christ, there is no such race, and as far as we know, there never has been such a race...
...He has mixed his absurdly ex-aggerated romance with a delightful nonsense, and skilfully manages to keep them both moving at a lively pace in a happy amalgam...
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...Who is a legislator, guardian...
...But this free fancy isn't always sustained throughout...
...Sturm are as different in matter and style as it is possible to be...
...Patton shows that we must face the choice between acceptance of the sublime doctrine of the Incarnation and-the uncompromising rejection of an impostor...
...Sturm has a distinct talent for humorous exaggeration in the form of topsy-turvy fantasy that is tied up with a keen burlesque which subjects modernity to satire...
...Something more of this spirit of religious earnestness would solve many of our ethical and social problems at the present day and would at least prolong the life of institutions and modes of thought endan- gered by the rising tide of neo-paganism...
...But at last the jailers discovered a weal on his right arm...
...That idea did exist in some cases--in China, for ex-ample---but not everywhere...
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...The system of Saint Thomas with all its ramifications is, on a larger scale, like some great mediaeval castle defended by wall within wall, moat and turret, outer barbican and inner keep, honeycombed with secret passages leading into open courts, so well-compacted that its acres of extent can be taken in almost at a single glance, yet with every stone laid so carefully in place as to reward the closest scrutiny...
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...God as the source of reality, the first cause and the final end of the world and of men...
...or even something opposed to faith or morals...
...Yet many primitive races think of their Supreme Being as a kind of superman, living afar off...
...for its interpretation he goes mainly to Saint Thomas, supplemented by such assist- ance as can be derived from modern science...
...it is differentiated from ascetic theology, the other branch of moral theology, in that while the latter studies the ordinary and active way of salvation mystical theology studies the extraordinary and passive way...
...If his vices were too obvious, his influence would soon be unmasked...
...and they are all against this theory...
...Monseigneur Farges insists at the outset that mystical the- ology is not only a science, but an experimental science based on authenticated reports of mystical experience...
...When to be "mod-ernist" has become as much the fashion in religion as to be "Bohemian" in Greenwich Village, it is interesting to find two books representing a logical and clear-minded "fundamentalism" coming from such widely-separated thinkers as a Jesuit preacher, and the former president of Princeton University, and later of Princeton Theological Seminary, who writes from the stand- point of Presbyterianism---of a Presbyterianism that, within the ambitus of its own dogmatic premises, is singularly logical and coherent and whose adherents are uniformly noticeable for the consistency and moral courage with which they translate their theological system into practical Christian living...
...Patton's book who is of the number of those who hold the Catholic tradition must feel im- pelled to extend the hand of friendship to one who is so dear an exponent and so .courageous a defender of the great truth enshrined in Et Verburn caro factum est...
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...T HIS is a book in the Van Loon tradition, written in a turgid, would-he impressive style, and illustrated by some of the worst drawings that ever issued from the press...
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...The human counterfeits, the hallucinations, illusions, and dreams due to nervous disorders, hysteria, delirium, or madness may be accurately distinguished from instances of genuine mysticism, Monseigneur Farges contends, by their dependence upon physical organs and by the ill effects which ensue...
...The repeated slurs upon mediaevalism are typical of a cer-tain stiff frigidity which all but succeeded in removing contact with the classics from among the experiences of education...
...Professor Giles, an acknowledged authority, says that there are no facts pointing to the conclusion that magic preceded religion in a country whose records go to show that the worship of one God has been the custom from the beginning...
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...He has revived some practices of the older poets, and attempted some notable variations of his own...
...and though Polo frequently transmutes the marvelous into the in- credible, the honesty and general accuracy of the account ot his travels became evident...
...Man had a dream, that made him think of a spirit within...
...We stir have to turn to him for information about many parts of the interior of China...
...One may still see, as Marco Polo saw, the brahminical castemarks upon the forehead and the brahminical cord over the shoulder...
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...After all, this has probably added little that is absolutely new...
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...Bates's narrative sense, in such a manner as to blur his effects when they should have crystallized...
...the knowledge is primary, the motion secondary...
...T HIS elaborate work by Monseigneur Farges is designed primarily for spiritual directors in the Catholic Church, secondarily for Catholic laymen, and only incidentally, if at all, for readers outside of the Church...
...Prior to the mystical experience, however, the tale is very different...
...The idea of the Blessed Sacrament is "quite flagrantly the relic of an old magic rite...
...The Two Sisters, by H. E. Bates...
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...Rejecting the vapid sentimentalism of a merely human Christ, Mr...
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...It is this extraordinary and passive character of mysticism which furnishes the keynote to Monseigneur Farges's volume...
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...Patton's Fundamental Christianity represents in an ex- panded form a series of lectures delivered in the Union Theo- logical Seminary in Richmond, Virginia...
...That is a fatal blow to the hypothesis, which offends also against the perfectly adequate philosophical argu- ment that an effect cannot rise above its cause, and that the theory is quite inadequate to account for the hold which relig- ion has, and has always had, on mankind...
...a t/dying-up in the way of a pantheon with a president of the immortals...
...Thence, ancestor-wor-ship...
...Edward Garnett, in the course of his introductory remarks, observes that Mr...
...Here, as throughout, it would seem that Monseig-neur Farges accomplishes exactly what he sets out to do...
...His thick volume of 6oo pages is crammed with definitions, arguments, subtle distinctions, iHnstration and references to an extent which it is impossible to do more than indicate...
...This he finds to consist in direct communion with God, an intuition of God in Himself as contrasted with the indirect knowledge of Him through His effects...
...or of the religion which He founded...
...The present volume suggests the comment which was repeatedly heard at the Philosophical Congress in September: "M...
...The mystic's preparation usually takes the form of what Saint John of the Cross appropriately called "dark nights," times of anguish and spiritual dryness, accompanied by horrible temptations to glutton3~, concupiscence, or blasphemy, with a terrible f~ling of being abandoned by God...
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...He has an Anglican bishop, Dr...
...That matter having been most fully looked into and discussed, it now appears that there is not a particle of evidence for such an explanation...
...I myself can bear witness to the absolute accuracy--as far as it goes--of what he has to say about those parts of southern India he visited...
...But they are accretions...
...And the native Australians, a primi- tive enough people, believe in a Supreme Being Who made man of mud...
...Haines accounting for the loss of the poems, Mr...
...Again, it contains the idea that all men have such a conception as that of spirits...
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...Mystical Phenomena Compared mith Their Human and Diabolical Counter[eits, by Monseigneur Albert Farces...
...but one does suspect that he would come off rather nicely as a stylist by comparison with some British editors...
...and does not appear to have been part of the religion of prehistoric man...
...The same is true of the Andamanese, the most primitive of races...
...T HE welcome presence of M. l~tienne Gilson on the Harvard faculty during a portion of the past year makes a fitting occasion to review his admirable volume on the phil- osophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas...
...Some might even appropriately be entitled, "ad- ventures of a fearless soul...
...The idea of such a race has gone, as one writer says, to the limbo of dead controversies...
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...The Jesuit Martyrs of North America By JOHN J. WYNNE The only complete story of these heroes of our American Origins...
...They make fetish figures like the one rep- resented, but these figures have an absolutely different significance...
...Just the kind of a neat, complete scheme which was turned out by the dozen in many subjects under the powerful influence of Darwin and evolution...
...It is rather the reconstruction of the Sapphic tradition which proves disappointing and vexatious...
...He transforms himself at will into an angel of light...
...One detail he gives is of special interest to me...
...1.50 The Universal Knowledge Foundation 19 Union Square W. New York, N. Y. find hierarchies--mineral, vegetable, animal, or in ourselves-- life, sense, reason hierarchies which we can conceptually com- plete with beings above ourselves, the angels, and so approach analogically to the Supreme Being or God...
...From such a start, it is natural that Rabbi Browne should see magic every- where...
...The book contains an exceedingly poor drawing, inscribed "the first church," and representing "an ugly idol made of mud" in a rude shed~ Rabbi Browne's idea of how man first worshipped God...
...If Mr...
...How often my Tamil ayah used to delight and terrify me with a similar story...
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...To use the word "fundamental" or "funda-mentalist" in regard to one's religious beliefs is, in the minds of our amateur journalist-theologians, to align oneself with all that is conservative and intransigeant...
...Haines vindicating the character of Sappho, is a gentleman who spoils evidence with pompous sentimentality...
...After dis- posing of some of the objections to eternal punishment, he admits, "After all, hell is more or less a mystery which cannot be wholly explained by reason...
...T HAT Sappho should find a place in the Broadway Trans- lations was to be expected...
...T HE very titles of the two volumes listed above are a challenge...
...If magic began religion, we should expect to find at least one backward race which practised nothing else...
...Here again, it would appear that the author has never heard of Lang's works--at least they are nowhere mentioned nor is their argument discussed...
...One does not object strenuously to the utter disregard of American scholarship...
...and when it came, it was an accretion, as in China, to the monotheistic idea, and not in any way a step on the road to it...
...8ix Fundamentals of Religion, by J. A. McGlorey...
...Thence the author goes on to a discussion of the effects of mystical experience, the immediate effects being a suspension of the ordinary powers of the intellect and will, and an intense feeling of wonder and love while the premanent effects are a serene peace of the soul, humility and obedience, great tenderheSS of conscience, the gift of strength, hunger and thirst after justice, and impatience for the life of the blessed...
...So we have them viewing life poetically and humorously...
...His craft in handling narrative shows first-rate story-telling competence...
...Still, his achievement, though of a vastly different style and subject- treatment, is yet of high merit...
...For the psy- chological description of this experience the author draws largely, though by no means exclusively, on the writings of Saint Teresa and Saint John of the Cross...
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...One knows not which to admire the more, its absolute unity and simplicity of structure or its enormous range and com-plexity of detail...
...The Two Sisters is a novel where mood predominates...
...Here again, if mankind had really reached this idea through the chain of beliefs enumerated above, we might have expected that at least a ~ew backward races would have been found on some of the lower rungs of the ladder--but there is not one...
...I do not recall any recent poetry which seems so definitely neo-Platonic (in the fine Augustinian sense) in character--to combine so well a kind of stoical resig- nation with a courageous faith in the soul...
...The Travels of Marco Polo, with an introduction by John Mase~eld...
...The Bad Samaritan, by Justin Sturm...
...polytheism...
...Father McClorey's book comprises a series of six sermons or addresses, apparently used or intended for use in a mission or spiritual retreat...
...Y. T~tws...
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...Who is clement and benevolent...
...So they cut out the amulet and hanged their man...
...After an historical survey., beginning with the mystical events recorded in the New Testament and discussing the most im- portant of the Catholic mystics, Monseigneur Farges proceeds to define the essential phenomenon of mysticism...
...The devil's deeds always carry with them some ridiculous, unseemly or coarse details...
...we are only too plainly derivative, the explanation of our existence does not lie in ourselves...
...Hence, he would have achieved a natural contrast, which he has attempted indirectly, by his introduction of the mad and grotesque father and unruly brothers...
...In his treatment of the Personality of Christ, for example, there is an atmosphere of intense but well-controlled enthusiasm that can hardly fail to communicate itself to any reader who shares the author's clear and solidly- accepted belief in the Incarnation...
...the ideas are original with the Australian...
...Sequel to Parkman's "The Jesuits in North America...
...It is to these leading ideas that attention will here be given...
...Never was the much-praised Gallic lucidity more in evidence than in these chapters...
...Besides the essential characteristic of mysticism, there are, of course, a host of accidental phenomena, of which Monseigneur Farges givesa partial List...
...It is in connection with these that confusion chiefly arises with the diabolical and human counterfeits of mysticism...
...The author does not mention Tyler's name nor his book in the bibliography, and perhaps does not know that Tyler was the originator of the idea...
...The Pygmies of the Central African forests have, says Bishop Le Roy who lived with them for years, a purer idea of God than many of the more advanced tribes...
...It would almost seem that the hilarious Mr...
...Cooper were more lyrical, less reflective, by nature, I for one should be willing to affirm that here is one of the few truly great American poems...
...My object is to deal with a number of misconceptions or worse commonly entertained as to the attitude of the Catholic Church to science...
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...One need not, for instance, place any great store by the writings of Saint Gregory Nazianzen...
...for it is mingled in the course of the novel with gloomy, strained, and confused pages...
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...Monseigneur Farges, following Saint Teresa, distinguishes vari- ous degrees of contemplative union--the prayer of quiet, the prayer of union, the prayer of ecstatic union, and the prayer of perfect union or spiritual marriage, all of which he charac- terizes in detail...
...Napkins to Match ./~'~ Hea...
...One recalls Seeley's profound remark that, "No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic...
...Haines is distressingly pedantic in the more provincial English fashion...
...He also had his amulet, and the drop repeatedly refused to work...
...S4.95 do...
...and who died because of the arro- gant tone which he adopted toward the authorities--and so on...
...T HE reticences of Mr...
...Jumbled up with the Tylerian hypothesis is the perfectly dif- ferent idea~taken from Frazer~that magic was the original form of religion...
...Three Portraits...
...Without minimizing Saint Thomas's greatness as a theologian or denying the influence of his theology on his philosophy, M. Gilson nevertheless maintains that his philosophy was essentially autonomous...
Vol. 5 • January 1927 • No. 11
