Talks on Talking by Grenville Kleiser
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human reason as well as its strength, its province, and its limits. If
he can be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded to ridicule religion or to act against it; he is too wise to be a dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity. He respects piety and devotion; he even supports institutions as venerable, beautiful or useful, to which he does not assent; he honors the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or denouncing them. He is a friend of religious toleration, and that not only because his philosophy has taught him to look on all forms of faith with an impartial eye, but also from the gentleness and effeminacy of feeling which is attendant on civilization. --_Cardinal Newman._ * * * * * * ADVERTISEMENTS By GRENVILLE KLEISER HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC--A practical self-instructor for lawyers, clergymen, teachers, business men, and others. Cloth, 543 pages. $1.25, _net_; by mail, $1.40. HOW TO DEVELOP SELF-CONFIDENCE IN SPEECH AND MANNER--A book of practical inspiration; trains men to rise above mediocrity and fearthought to |
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