Marbaniang, Domenic

When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. It would be better to walk past a church as if it were a pagoda than to stand permanently in the porch, impotent either to go inside and help or to go outside and forget. In order to strike, in the only sane or possible sense, the note of impartiality, it is necessary to touch the nerve of novelty. I mean that in one sense we see things fairly when we see them first. George Wyndham once told me that he had seen one of the first aeroplanes rise for the first time and it was very wonderful but not so wonderful as a horse allowing a man to ride on him. If we have got into that state of mind about a horse as something stale, it is far better to be frightened of a horse because it is a good deal too fresh. there is something purely acoustic in much of that agnostic sort of reverence. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand i