Excerpt from The Common Life

In these Essays I have followed up a number of the varying phases of our common life in search of their verdicts. The religious thinker of to-day, in search of truth for himself and of a message for his fellows, can no longer, with his predecessors of earlier times, satisfy either himself or his audience by the quotation of ecclesiastical authorities. Those ancient findings have everywhere to be revised. The facts from which the old interpretations were drawn were neither so numerous nor so well authenticated as those we now know. And new and old alike have to be built into a larger synthesis. What I have here attempted is to rehandle the religious raw material as contained in the daily human experience. To pass by the accidents and to look into what is common to humanity; to catch, out of its myriad dialects the accents of a universal speech, and to note what that speech actually signifies, is what I have here endeavoured after.

Ours is perhaps not an age for building.

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