Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quote

I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity and also infernal nonsense, is oddly enough bad Positivism too, unless I misunderstand that system.


Chapter XVI: "The Last Straw" - Trent's Last Case (1912)


I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity...

I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity...

I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity...

I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity...