STIFFENING OF FAITH
NEEDS OF PRESENT DAY. I do not believe in Belief. But this is an age of faith, and there are so many militant creeds that, in selfdefence, one has to formulate a creed of one’s own, writes Mr E. M. Forster in a recent essay. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world which is rent by religious and racial persecution, in a world where ignorance rules, and science, who ought to have ruled, plays the subservient pimp. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy —they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long. But for the moment they are not enough, their ■action is no stronger’ than a flower, battered beneath a military jack-boot. They want stiffening, even if the process coarsens them. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening’ process, a sort of mental starch.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 6
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155STIFFENING OF FAITH Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 6
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