Excerpt from Where Saints Have Trod, Some Studies in Asceticism
There is always a grave danger to the interests of religion in the fact that those who are impressed with the obvious need of embracing much that is new in form and those who are equally impressed with the duty of standing by what is old in substance, are apt to look upon these aims as incompatible and therefore to be intolerant of one another.
Within certain limits the antagonism of these parties is healthy, in that it secures a due attention to both of those conditions of true progress which rarely dominate equally in any one mind. But beyond such limits there is a distinct danger lest either interest, by hampering or destroying the other, should also destroy the condition of its own sane development. Self-criticism and self-restraint rarely obtain except where there are others ready to criticise and restrain us should we fail of our own duty. The advocates of the Past and those of the Future are indeed animated as a rule by very different spirits - as different as age is from youth, as analytical reason is from intuition, as prudence is from enthusiasm. Yet each has its own blindness, each wants the guidance of the other; neither can say: "I have no need of thee."
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