hundred times in succession.

I have lived long enough to hear the _Zeitgeist_ invoked to bless
very different theories.

. . . as if it were a kind of impiety not to float with the stream, a
feat which any dead dog can accomplish. . . .

An appendix is as superfluous at the end of the human caecum as at
the end of a volume of light literature.

The "traditions of the first six centuries" are the traditions of
the rattle and the feeding bottle.

In speaking to me last year of the crowded waiting-lists of the Public
Schools, he said: "It is no longer enough to put down the name of one's
son on the day he is born, one must write well ahead of that: 'I am
expecting to have a son next year, or the year after, and shall be
obliged if--' The congestion is very great, in spite of the increasing
fees and the supertax."

Much of his journalism, by the way, has the education of his children
for its excuse and its consecration--children to whom the Dean of St.
Paul's reveals in their nursery a side of his character wholly and
beautifully different from the popular legend.

There is no greater mind in the Church of England, no greater mind, I
am disposed to think, in the English nation. His intellect has the range
of an Acton, his forthrightness is the match of Dr. Johnson's, and his
wit, less biting though little less courageous than Voltaire's, has the
illuminating quality, if not the divine playfulness, of the wit of
Socrates.

But he lacks that profound sympathy with the human race which gives to
moral decisiveness the creative energy of the great fighter. A lesser
man than Erasmus left a greater mark on the sixteenth century.

The righteous saying of Bacon obstinately presents itself to our mind
and seems to tarry for an explanation: "The nobler a soul is, the more
objects of compassion it hath."

FATHER KNOX

KNOX, REV. RONALD ARBUTHNOTT; b. 17th Feb., 2888; 4th s. of the Rt.
Rev. E.A. Knox, Bishop of Manchester. Ethuc.: Eton (1st
Scholarship); Balliol College, Oxford (1st Scholarship). Hertford
Scholarship, 1907; Second in Honour Moderations, 1908; Ireland and
Craven Scholarship, 1908; 1st in Litt. Hum., 1910; Fellow and
Lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford, 1910; Chaplain, 1912;
Resigned, 1917; received into the Church of Rome, September, 1917.

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CHAPTER III

FATHER KNOX

_Our new curate pr