Religion: Rome, Geneva, Science

"I will make a clean breast of it. Why should I not?" said Dean Inge in the first of his Yale lectures delivered last week. He was speaking of preachers who, if they get applause, are as happy as if they had obtained a kingdom.

"I am delighted and then, when I go home, and I reflect that the people who have been applauding me have received no benefit and that, indeed, whatever benefit they might have had, has been killed in the applause, I am sore at heart and I lament and I feel...

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