and lovable in our eyes is man--the old beer-drinking,
creed-making, fighting, failing, sensual, respectable man.
And the things that have been founded on this creature immortally remain;
the things that have been founded on the fancy of the Superman have
died with the dying civilizations which alone have given them birth.
When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society,
He chose for its comer-stone neither the brilliant Paul nor
the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob a coward--in a word, a man.
And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell
have not prevailed against it. All the empires and the kingdoms
have failed, because of this inherent and continual weakness,
that they were founded by strong men and upon strong men.
But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded
on a weak man, and for that reason it is indestructible.
For no chain is stronger than its weakest link.



V. Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants


We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part
of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display,
but the virtues that he cannot. And the more we approach the problems
of human history with this keen and piercing charity, the smaller
and smaller space we shall allow to pure hypocrisy of any kind.
The hypocrites shall not deceive us into thinking them saints;
but neither shall they deceive us into thinking them hypocrites.
And an increasing number of cases will crowd into our field of inquiry,