When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.
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