It is in the interests of theology, if it
be a science, and it is in the interests of those teachers of theology
who desire to be something better than counsel for creeds, that it
should be taken to heart. The seeker after theological truth and that
only, will no more suppose that I have insulted him, than the prisoner
who works in fetters will try to pick a quarrel with me, if I suggest
that he would get on better if the fetters were knocked off: unless
indeed, as it is said does happen in the course of long captivities,
that the victim at length ceases to feel the weight of his chains, or
even takes to hugging them, as if they were honourable ornaments.[100]
FOOTNOTES:
[81] The substance of a paragraph which precedes this has
been transferred to the Prologue.
[82] I confess that, long ago, I once or twice made this
mistake; even to the waste of a capital 'U.' 1893.
[83] "Let us maintain, before we have proved. This seeming
paradox is the secret of happiness" (Dr. Newman: Tract
85, p. 85).
[84] Dr. Newman, _Essay on Development_, p. 357.
[85] It is by no means to be assumed that "spiritual" and
"corporeal" are exact equivalents of "immaterial" and
"material" in the minds of ancient speculators on
these topics. The "spiritual body" of the risen dead
(1 Cor.
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