These things were as the bones of the Universe-facts beyond doubting-if they were not true, nothing anywhere was anything but a dream. Lord of the World (Q1194272) 1907 novel by Robert Hugh Benson edit Statements instance of literary work 1 reference image Lord of the World book cover 1907. He might go mad, but Jesus Christ was Incarnate Deity, proving Himself so by death and Resurrection, and John his Vicar. There was the Catholic Faith, more certain to him than the existence of himself: it was true and alive. This … and this … and this … all made the one and perfect whole. Christianity, on the other hand, at least included and accounted for these, even if it did not explain them. Humanity-Religion could only be true if at least half of man's nature, aspirations and sorrows were ignored. “Huge principles, once bewildering and even repellent, were again luminously self-evident he saw, for example, that while Humanity-Religion endeavoured to abolish suffering the Divine Religion embraced it, so that the blind pangs even of beasts were within the Father's Will and Scheme or that while from one angle one colour only of the web of life was visible-material, or intellectual, or artistic-from another the Supernatural was as eminently obvious.
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