Mr. Edward Arnold's AntuDin Announcements. ii 



familiar. Mr. Bergson, in whose philosophy the Diarist is steeped, 



somewhere speaks of the disappearance of many problems, as 

 thought penetrates beyond and behind their place of origin, into a 

 region in which opposites are included and embraced. So Mr. Palmer, 

 as he considers the rites and ceremonies, the theologies old and new, 

 which the year brings before him, and sets them in relation with the 

 latest or the oldest philosophical thinking or the most recent 

 scientific generalization, shows that there is in man, if we do but 

 take him as a whole and not in artificial sections, a power by which 

 faith and knowledge come to be at one. 



The Diary covers nearly ten months — from July, 1909, to May, 

 1910. It is full of variety, yet has the unity due to one purpose 

 strongly held and clearly conceived. A rare sincerity and a fine 

 power of expression characterize this striking book. 



The title shows that religion is interpreted in the ' modernist ' 

 fashion ; but modernism is a method, not a system, and the writer 

 is more than an exponent of other men's thoughts. If there are any 

 leaders in the great movement to which he is more indebted than he 

 is to the movement itself, they are the late Father George Tyrrell (to 

 whom the book is dedicated), and Baron Friedrick von Hi'igel. 



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 Xhe fact of heredity ; fortes cvcaiitnr fortibus et bonis somehow or other, 

 but it is only recently that more precise information has been sought 

 and achieved as to how and to what extent mental and bodily 

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 With this increase of information has come also a realization of the 

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