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need of social life and manners. The English have 

 the sense of the power of conduct, the Italians the 

 sense of the power of beauty, the Germans the 

 sense of the power of knowledge or science, the 

 French the sense of the power of social life and 

 manners. All these things are needed for our 

 complete humanization or civilization; the ancient 

 Greeks came nearer possessing the whole of them, 

 and of moving on all these lines, than any other 

 people. The ground of his preference for the his- 

 toric churches, the Catholic and the Anglican, over 

 the dissenting churches is that, whUe they all have 

 a false philosophy of religion, the former address 

 themselves to more needs of human life than the 

 latter. 



" The need for beauty is a real and now rapidly 

 growing need in man: Puritanism cannot satisfy 

 it; Catholicism and the English Church can. The 

 need for intellect and knowledge in him, indeed, 

 neither Puritanism, nor Catholicism, nor the Eng- 

 lish Church, can at present satisfy. That need has 

 to seek satisfaction nowadays elsewhere, — through 

 the modern spirit, science, literature." 



He avers that Protestantism has no intellectual 

 superiority over Catholicism, but only a moral su- 

 periority arising from greater seriousness and ear- 

 nestness. Neither have the Greek wholeness and 

 proportion. The attitude of the one towards the 

 Bible is as unreasoning as the attitude of the other 

 towards the church. 



"The mental habit of him who imagines that 



