One might strongly differ with the views expressed by Mr. Bennett, but no one could say after reading' him that it was difficult to he stood. He articulate There is, no doubt, more in religion than Mr, Bennett grasps; but in his alienation from the dogmas of the Christian Churches ho is representa~ tive of the average thoughtful and busy man of to-day. He is also the most definitely anti-Christian the 10 writers.
Miss Rebecca West's fine essay would be more satisfying to the average man if he could share more fully her comforting "intuitions." She says that "after one has watcbe?
dying person with the clairvoyant, eye of affection the iden of death 'a0 a triumph of decay passes for-fever. One perceives that he is not ceasing to exist sing into another universe." She qualifies that definite assertion with, "quite possibly he takes with him no memory of this life." For many people that reservation destroys the whole effect, ins it would seem to imply a loss of individual personal-except fo the neering that "A drunkard, "a man who spends his whole some game like ten country hostess who spends her whole life in trivial social activities —all these die when they die." One realises that this list might be extended indefinitely, and one realizes also that it might not apply to anybody, for "whole life" is an all-embracing form. She says that she often goes to non-conformist. ser because in the preachers you there, and in the congre who listen to them, you get pre-occupation with problems of conduct and duty as have probably been shown by any people since the world began." She also sometimes attends Roman Catholic churches because "when one sees a beautiful church fall of worshippers kneeling in attitudes of adoration in front of an altar where a cardinal in robes the very colour of power and majesty abases himself before a cross on which there hangs a naked man who was poor, and desi and rejected, one gets a complete expression of a certain group of spiritual ideas that can struggle into words only one aspect at time."
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