As the days went slowly by he came to see that Christianity and the denial of Christianity after all met as much as any other extremes do; it was a fight about names — not about things; practically the Church of Rome, the Church of England, and the freethinker have the same ideal standard and meet in the gentleman; for he is the most perfect saint who is the most perfect gentleman. Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.


Ch. 67 - The Way of All Flesh (1903)

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Samuel Butler Quotes

As the days went slowly by he came to see that Christianity and the denial of Christianity after all met as much as any other extremes do; it was a...

As the days went slowly by he came to see that Christianity and the denial of Christianity after all met as much as any other extremes do; it was a...

As the days went slowly by he came to see that Christianity and the denial of Christianity after all met as much as any other extremes do; it was a...

As the days went slowly by he came to see that Christianity and the denial of Christianity after all met as much as any other extremes do; it was a...