Orthodoxy

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1. The Maniac - (1)
   Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true. Once I remember…
2. The Maniac - (2)
   Such is the madman of experience; he is commonly a reasoner, frequently a successful reasoner. Doubtless he could be vanquished in mere rea…
3. The Suicide of Thought - (1)
   The phrases of the street are not only forcible but subtle: for a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. P…
4. The Suicide of Thought - (2)
   But one more word must be added. At the beginning of this preliminary negative sketch I said that our mental ruin has been wrought by wild…
5. The Ethics of Elfland - (1)
   When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, one…
6. The Ethics of Elfland - (2)
   This is the tone of fairy tales, and it is certainly not lawlessness or even liberty, though men under a mean modern tyranny may think it l…
7. The Flag of the World - (1)
   When I was a boy there were two curious men running about who were called the optimist and the pessimist. I constantly used the words mysel…
8. The Flag of the World - (2)
   This was the first of the long train of enigmas with which Christianity entered the discussion. And there went with it a peculiarity of whi…
9. The Paradoxes of Christianity - (1)
   The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind…
10. The Paradoxes of Christianity - (2)
    I went over all the cases, and I found the key fitted so far. The fact that Swinburne was irritated at the unhappiness of Christians and ye…
11. The Eternal Revolution - (1)
    The following propositions have been urged: First, that some faith in our life is required even to improve it; second, that some dissatisfa…
12. The Eternal Revolution - (2)
    When I had written this down, I felt once again the presence of something else in the discussion: as a man hears a church bell above the so…
13. The Eternal Revolution - (3)
    Is there any answer to the proposition that those who have had the best opportunities will probably be our best guides? Is there any answer…
14. The Romance of Orthodoxy - (1)
    It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness a…
15. The Romance of Orthodoxy - (2)
    This is the meaning of that almost insane happiness in the eyes of the mediaeval saint in the picture. This is the meaning of the sealed ey…
16. Authority and the Adventurer - (1)
    The last chapter has been concerned with the contention that orthodoxy is not only (as is often urged) the only safe guardian of morality o…
17. Authority and the Adventurer - (2)
    He may say that there has been in many miraculous stories a notion of spiritual preparation and acceptance: in short, that the miracle coul…