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...true that faith transcends reason, then no theosophical disputation conducted by a believer can be intellectually honest. At some points reason will fall back for support upon faith. Here, these points are many and marked. Yet, within the confines of his citadel, Father Gillan moves always in the open. He is wide-read. He is honest. He is witty. It is with great good humor that he takes the measure of Shaw's "automatic and mechanical perverseness," with true Christian charity that he pities Mark Twain's incurable despondency and Nietzsche's insane courage. He is hygienically...
Oxford--Stroke, Bourne; 7, Kirby; 6, Gillan; 5, Mackinnon; 4, Garton; 3, Gudmore; 2, Barker; bow, Gladstone; cox., Donkin...