Excerpt from Six Masters in Disillusion
In order that the reader may be as little disappointed as possible with these studies, I must explain that they are not concerned with strictly contemporary disillusion. The period which they are intended, in a very partial and tentative way, to illustrate is behind us, and its forces are in great measure already spent. Contemporary disillusion, of which, among the writers here noticed, Anatole France alone could fairly be considered an example, is a different matter. Our fathers were rationalists, and were naive enough to think that Theology stood or fell by its claims to rationality. They thought that the cosmology and psychology of Christianity, the propositions which it enunciated about the nature of man and the world he finds himself in, were intended to be taken as facts.
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