A spring-board is what humanity needs.
What better one can be contrived than this pure unadulterated
Byzantianism. Cretinism, I call it. Look at the Orthodox Church. A
repository of apocalyptic nonsense such as no sane man can take
seriously. Nonsense of the right kind, the uncompromising kind. That is
my point. The paralysing, sterilizing cult of these people offers a far
better spring-board into a clean element of thought than our English
Church, whose DEMI-VIERGE concessions to common sense afford seductive
resting-places to the intellectually weak-knee'd. Do I make myself
clear? I'm getting infernally thirsty."
"I quite agree with you, my friend. The Russians have got a better
spring-board than the English. The queer thing is, that the Russians
won't jump, whereas the Englishman often does. Well, well! We cannot
live without fools."
Mr. Heard was slightly perturbed by these words. A good fellow like
Keith! "DEMI-VIERGE concessions to common sense"; what did he mean by
that? Did his church really make such concessions?
"I'll think about it to-morrow," he decided.
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