Heretics

But our modern educationists are trying to bring about a religious liberty without attempting to settle what is religion or what is liberty.

Mr. Kipling, with all his merits, is the globe-trotter; he has not the patience to become part of anything.

The globe-trotter lives in a smaller world than the peasant.

The man in the saloon steamer has seen all the races of men, and he is thinking of the things that divide men—diet, dress, decorum, rings in the nose as in Africa, or in the ears as in Europe, blue paint among the ancients, or red paint among the modern Britons. The man in the cabbage field has seen nothing at all; but he is thinking of the things

For progress by its very name indicates a direction; and the moment we are in the least doubtful about the direction, we become in the same degree doubtful about the progress.

It is not merely true that the age which has settled least what is progress is this "progressive" age. It is, moreover, true that the people who have settled least what is progress are the most "progressive" people in it.

Nobody has any business to use the word "progress" unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

It cannot be true that there is nothing abiding in what we know. For if that were so we should not know it all and should not call it knowledge. Our mental state may be very different from that of somebody else some thousands of years back; but it cannot be entirely different, or else we should not be conscious of a difference.