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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

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Bishop Lancelot Andrewes

Bishop Lancelot Andrewes

(1555-1626) Manuscript notebook of Private Prayers for personal use, which was published after his death - English prelate and scholar, of vast patristic learning.

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