Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925 / 2008-06-17 00:00:00

EBOOK MEMOIRS OF ARTHUR HAMILTON ***


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Etext preparer's note: This text was first published anonymously in 1886.

MEMOIRS OF
ARTHUR HAMILTON, B.A.
OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

Extracted from his letters and diaries, with reminiscences of his
conversation by his friend CHRISTOPHER CARR
of the same college
By
Arthur Christopher Benson
"Pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di;
Carior est illis homo quam sibi."
Juvenal


DEDICATION
To H. L. M.

My dear Friend,
When you were kind enough to allow me to dedicate this book to
you??”you, to whose frank discussion of sacred things and kindly
indifference to exaggerations of expression I owe so much??”I felt
you were only adding another to the long list of delicate benefits
for which a friend can not be directly repaid.
My object has throughout been this: I have seen so much of what
may be called the dissidence of religious thought and religious
organization among those of my own generation at the Universities,
and the unhappy results of such a separation, that I felt bound to
contribute what I could to a settlement of this division, existing
so much more in word than in fact??”a point which you helped me very
greatly to grasp.
I have been fortunate enough to have seen and known both sides of the
battle. I have seen men in the position of teachers, both anxious and
competent to position of teachers, both anxious and competent to
settle differences, when brought into contact with men of serious
God-seeking souls, with the nominal intention of dropping the
bandying of words and cries and of attacking principles, meet and
argue and part, almost unconscious that they have never touched the
root of the matter at all, yet dissatisfied with the efforts which
only seem to widen the breach they are intended to fill.
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