Jan 18, 2024
As a matter of fact, we do not realise children, we
under-estimate them; in the divine words, we “despise” them, with
the best intentions in the world, because we confound the
immaturity of their frames, and their absolute ignorance as to the
relations of things, with spiritual impotence: whereas the fact
probably...
Jan 4, 2024
Few things could be more disastrous (as, alas, few are more
imminent) than a sudden break with the traditions of the past;
wherefore, let us gently knit the bonds that bind us to the
generation all too rapidly dying out. It is well that we gather up,
with tender reverence, such fragments of their insight...