If the kind of controversy which so often springs up between modernism and traditionalism in religion were applied to more commonplace affairs of life we might see some strange results.... It arises, let us say, from a passage in an obituary notice which mentions that the deceased had loved to watch the sunsets from his peaceful country home..... it is forgotten that what the deceased man looked out for each evening was an experience and not a creed.

Science and the Unseen World (1929)