John Morley: “They tear religion into shreds, so to speak, and say that there is one particular shred with which nothing will ever…”

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

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.