T.S. Eliot’s Praise for Privilege | Episode XVI
New Humanists
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The Church of England and Its Cathedrals
A was educated one of thesend. He says, here we were inducted into the mysteries of our national religion. Reasonable, surprisingly masculine for a faith that might at first glance seem soppy and weak,. confident and perhaps, above all things, unself consciously beautiful. For 300 years, it was just so, not especially treasured or remarked, but constant. Now and heres hitchen's echoing jode. The beauty came from elsewhere, as a free gift in the language of worship and scripture chosen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But these treasures, intricate, ancient workmen ship, polished and used to a soft, deep gleam, are now rarely heard
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