[25] Recently I attended on successive Sundays an extremely Catholic
and an extremely Protestant celebration of the Holy Communion. The
solemnity of the former was injured by the priest’s sermon, which
evinced the pumping process, the “defence-mechanism,” referred to
above. At the other service, the mound of bread-cubes that appeared on
the table below the pulpit, alongside a pitcher of grape-juice, was
suggestive, I fear, of the above mentioned junk-heaps. For the minister
interrupted his readings from old sacramental liturgies to explain how
much the ceremony rightly meant to his sect, and how much it wrongly
meant to the Catholics.
[26] Luke IV, 9-13.
[27] This word is borrowed from the late Baron Friedrich von Hügel, in
whose life and writings the truth of it is powerfully and beautifully
illustrated.
[28] His crucial period in early maturity, his “temptation in the
wilderness,” is examined in my article “On Emerson’s ‘Grace’ and
‘Self-Reliance’” in the _New England Quarterly_, Vol. II, No. 1, 1929.
[29] See the essays on Newman, Arnold, and Huxley in Robert Shafer’s
_Christianity and Naturalism_, 1926.
[30] See the chapter on him in Norman Foerster’s _American Criticism_,
1928.
[31] An interesting critique bearing on this subject is “The Modern
Distemper” by Professor Ralph Barton Perry in the _Saturday Review of
Literature_, June 1, 1929.
[32] Spenser’s _Faerie Queene_, Book I, canto 4. This great poetic
fable would be studied in our schools and colleges with deeper emotion
if its application to modern pride were not screened off by modern
pride itself.
[33] From _Parochial and Plain Sermons_, 1880, Vol. II, No. XXXI.
[34] _A Preface to Morals_, p. 326.
[35] From a review of my book _The Cycle of Modern Poetry_ in the
_Times Literary Supplement_ (London), June 20, 1929.
_Religion Without Humanism_