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CHAPTER VIII
THE RELIGIOUS TEMPER
“As a little child . . .”
Here is a sentence worth considering: “It is customary … to contrast the humility required by the Gospel with the supposed arrogance and self-sufficiency of the philosophical spirit. Yet if we take men so different and so representative in their differences as Plato, Bacon, and Spinoza, we find them all agreeing, not in a glorification of the human mind, but in the imperative demand that it should shake off its ‘chains’ and turn to receive the light, that it should surrender its
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