Excerpt from Catholicism and Independence: Being Studies in Spiritual Liberty
They are given a ready-made and lifeless answer to a spontaneous and living difficulty.
In some cases the method may be successful, or, at least, not deadly. The pressure of life and the rhythm of custom do what the actual treatment could not have effected; they distract the soul from the difficulties which have never been answered, and at last she forgets that she ever had them.
But is this a satisfactory ending even if it be an easy one? And then what of the soul that cannot forget? The cupboard is closed, but she knows that the skeleton is within, and that it may emerge at any time to clothe itself with her own life. The day of reckoning may be deferred, but not put off for ever.
What we would advocate, therefore, however imperfectly, in these essays, is the exercise of a stronger not a weaker faith, a faith not presumptuous, but courageous even to audacity. To trust oneself is, in certain cases, to trust God, for if the light within be not from Him, then are we indeed "of all men most miserable."
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Catholicism and Independence (M. D. Petre)