On the record
Yet the East, strangely enough, was the great home and nursery of all that is most distinctive in the constituent ideas of the Christian faith.
Said by
John Morley
Source
gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “Yet the East, strangely enough, was the great home and nursery of all that is most distinctive in the constituent ideas…”
Editor's note · Context
Morley acknowledges the East as the birthplace of distinctive Christian ideas, despite its degraded forms of belief.
Share
More from John Morley
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
Other voices in this conversation
