HUXLEY ON THE BIBLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1073, 13 May 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

HUXLEY ON THE BIBLE.

IJ Have alwaysobeeri:stronglyoiri favour/of [secular• education; inr the.' sense'^of ; t without/theology.;;builtmnsfconfess.l have 1 [been no less seriously : to "linowrby what practical'medsures ihe, religiousJfeelilig, r wljichiis the;essential-,ba'sis.of conduct, wasito ibej'ltepfcjupj.in.the present utterlyichaotip state; of opinion:'on thesc.matters,: without the/use; idf the Bible.'/Theipagan.i.rrio'ralistsiilackjlife: a'ndicolorj and >. even;:thelnoble';Strac, : Marcus, ;4ntpniu3,'.:is /too; high.- and','refinedj; fot> an' ordinary child, Take the Bible as fa; whole 1 ; r<iake.i the .seyeresti. destruttion o'wTiidhJj fair criticism; can;; dictate for ;shortc'omings;.' and ipiositiye; errpr.j;-.eljminatei.as a" se'nsibleylay. , teacher would do, if left, to i nptdoairablpifor, children to pccupyMmselves witbj and;ther.e,styiUerni}insiintthis,old literai. tur.eji vastiresiduuin oftrhoral grandeur. And: ; then consider th&great: hiatoricalfact.that) fori .three.cqpturies.thisjbpbfehaSLbe'eriiW.oxen.iatd; the Jijfei of all; thatiis .fet .andcnoMestlin. .ifc.has become ..the: .iiationa),)_epic..,Qfrßf.itaii)ij'a|)d;,is Jarriiliat to, '. rioble and jsiijiplp; ftpm J'oh'h/.QiGroatlsi house. to.X,and'B.'Eiid] Tassp vpe once; toi the Italians.; MhftimtxMmxtt the,* • noblest and.ipujftt; English,- andcaboundsiiilj merely tllierfttyaforrooji ' and fingliy.thatjitjXotpidsjrje Serjesihjn.d f .whp. neyerdefehjs l village,,tp Jbe; ignprankpfithe;' ex.. istence of other countries tion_s ) and,pf;a o , grejt / ,pasj. i stretc"h!ngobjick-,tp world.. By, ; the,,studyjof wbsi',ofc b.qgfe . could.), chjUjen.. feel,that,,eftcLfigiye, ( ia ( rthat, .vpt, proces?*ioii fifls,-. .>buf;i a ,earnsjthaibjessjogs (hecurscs of do'goPd and hate eyil, :i ejfe(j ; as^h'^yj,are, eajflty ing their payment foiitheir work ? And if Bible-reading is not accompanied by constraint .afi' iC:}iti-, < y^ne JJ operation,! do not.,b.elje j vj, the're. is | in., l >vbJ | ch ( , jejist, cojiec|ionjj,.. of, my,', cfiildhppcl ,raje, .connected, jvi tli; tKe 6]unjt ary,. stpdj/;' o l",- ari,., aricie'JLt jvhjcji belonged niy., grahatup^brer,.. T.here, were splendid pictures in it,'to& sure; b*utji £ recollect little,or .nothing..about! jthem,! save'; a pprjraitjofj a.jiiigb,", pn'ejjt'in What "comes - vividly back' t'o'my^rnjn.drtlrj! remembrances pf.my, delight, in; the hj/rtpnes' of Joseph' apdLHayid, apcLpf my o jjee'n.' ( apprf •,.' cialio'n.pf .the/cbjvaljdui?, in'.his (I?a}ings Like' ,a s'uddeafl'asTi, t(ier.'e , ( returpis r pack'iUp ; ou uJitir'jSCQrFi." the pettifogg'ihg."rneannssS of ,and • my ; sympathetic .'grief.: over,, the/ lament'alion of the,,cheafed:Esau, „'' flast thou.', ho't.a. blessing 'f6.r^lTie ) ''.a| l ao l , ,'fijy ( : And I seej Vas, iaja,. cloud,'/pictur.es A grand phantasmagoriajOi" tion. I.epumerafe, asthey.issue,-ihV.cKiidish, impressions w'pich' come crowding oiit,.bf.' in which, they' havs, lain almost''undisturbed for forty'years,'. 'I prize them.as an,eyidence, that a.child,, of, .foe or six years' old, left to'his own [devices,: m?ybe deeply, interested,in-. the,.Bible and', draw rriprai fi;pm„ it,.— Rhiflti, '"" '..'.'.' '''.'■'' '" ' '