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The Fair Haven, by John Pickard Owen, Ed. by William Bickersteth Owen [really Written by S. Butler].
The Fair Haven by John Pickard Owen Ed by William Bickersteth Owen - really Written by S. Butler Author:Samuel Butler General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: (25) CHAPTER II. BUT it was impossible that a mind of such activity should have gone over so much ground, and yet in the end returned to the same position as that from which it started. So far was this from being the case, that the Christianity of his maturer life would be considered dangerously heterodox by those who belong to any of the more definite or precise schools of theological thought. He was as one who has made the circuit of a mountain, and yet been ascending during the whole time of his doing so : such a person finds himself upon the same side as at first, but upon a greatly higher level. The peaks which had seemed the most important when he was in the valley were now dwarfed to their true proportions by colossal cloud-capped masses whose very existence could not have been suspected from beneath : and again, other points which had seemed among the lowest turned out to be the very highest of all -- as the Finster-Aarhorn, which hides itself away in of the centre of the Bernese Alps, and is never seen to be the greatest till one is high and far off. Thus he felt no sort of fear or repugnance in admitting that the New Testament writings as we now have them are not by any means accurate records of the events which they profess to chronicle This, which few English Churchmen would be prepared to admit, was to him so much of an axiom that he despaired of seeing any sound theological structure raised until it was universally recognised. And here he would probably meet with sympathy from the more advanced thinkers within the body of the Church, but so far as I know, he stood alone as recognisin...« less