OPPONENT OF CATHOLICISM
‘ENGLISHNESS’ SAYS LORD CECIL. STRIKING PASSAGES IN HIS BOOK. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright London, Jan. 24. Striking passages in Lord Hugh Cecil’s new book “Anglo-Catholicism,” state: “A really formidable opponent of Catholicism is not Protestantism but Anglicanism, or, if an ugly but expressive word may be coined, ‘Englishness.* “There seems to hang about the people’s minds an impression that because the 19th and 20th centuries have produced an extraordinary prolific knowledge of natural science and skill in mechanical devices, therefore God’s revelation of truth must be modified and improved upon; that because we can fly aeroplanes the nativity of Christ can hardly be believed; and because we can listen to the wireless and telephone the moral objections to contraception are no longer valued. We might as well speak of conflict between geography and music as between religion and science.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1934, Page 7
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