The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
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page 79 of 418 (18%)
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Establishment as a vital matter. And I have generally remarked
that when clergymen of the Church profess extreme catholicity of spirit, and declare that they do not regard it as a thing of the least consequence whether a man be Churchman or Dissenter, intelligent Nonconformists receive such protestations with much contempt, and (possibly with injustice) suspect their utterer of hypocrisy. If you really care much about any principle; and if you regard it as of essential importance; you cannot help feeling a strong impulse to intolerance of those who decidedly and actively differ from you. Here are some further vulgar errors, primary and secondary: Primary--Idleness, and excessive self-indulgence; Secondary--Penances, and self-inflicted tortures. Primary--Swallowing whole all that is said or done by one's party; Secondary--Dread of quite agreeing, or quite disagreeing on any point with any one; and trying to keep at exactly an equal distance from each. Primary--Following the fashion with indiscriminate ardour; Secondary--Finding a merit in singularity, as such. Primary--Being quite captivated with thought which is striking and showy, but not sound; Secondary--Concluding that whatever is sparkling must be unsound. |
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