Mr. Britling Sees it ThroughMacmillan, 1916 - 441 páginas This historical novel is set during World War I. The title character, Mr. Britling, is an eccentric writer whose days in the summer of 1914 consist of luxurious house parties, international guests, and quick hops across the channel to visit his mistress. However, this changes as Germany marches into Belgium. |
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Página 406 - But the common sense of men knows better. Every real religious thought denies it. After all, the real God of the Christians is Christ, not God Almighty; a poor mocked and wounded God nailed on a cross of matter.... Some day He will triumph.... But it is not fair to say that He causes all things now. It is not fair to make out a case against him. You have been misled. It is a theologian's folly. God is not absolute; God is finite.... A finite God who struggles in his great and comprehensive way as...
Página 406 - It is a theologian's folly. God is not absolute ; God is finite. ... A finite God who struggles in his great and comprehensive way as we struggle in our weak and silly way — who is with us — that is the essence of all real religion. ... I agree with...
Página 267 - England was the last place in which English energy was spent. These hedges, these dilatory roads were full of associations. There was a road that turned aside near Market Saffron to avoid Turk's wood; it had been called Turk's wood first in the fourteenth century after a man of that name. He quoted Chesterton's happy verses to justify these winding lanes. " The road turned first towards the left, Where Perkin's quarry made the cleft; The path turned next towards the right, Because the mastiff used...
Página 442 - Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.
Página 438 - Presence of which he had thought very many times in the last few weeks, a Presence so close to him that it was behind his eyes and in his brain and hands. It was no trick of his vision; it was a feeling of immediate reality. And it was> I Hugh, Hugh that he had thought was dead, it was young...
Página 406 - God is within Nature and necessity. Necessity is a thing beyond God — beyond good and ill, beyond space and time, a mystery everlastingly impenetrable. God is nearer than that. Necessity is the uttermost thing, but God is the innermost thing. Closer he is than breathing and nearer than hands and feet. He is the Other Thing than this world. Greater than Nature or Necessity, for he is a spirit and they are blind, but not controlling them. . . . Not yet.
Página 68 - They grow more. But they blunder more. Life ceases to be a discipline and becomes an experiment. . . ." "That's very true," said Mr. Direck, to whom it seemed the time was ripe to say something. "This is the problem of America perhaps even more than of England. Though I have not had the parental experience you have undergone. ... I can see very clearly that a son is a very serious proposition." "The old system of life was organisation. That is where Germany is still the most ancient of European states....
Página 304 - inwardness " of Mr. Wells's reaction to the war after his " discovery of God " may perhaps be suggested by the words which come into Mr. Britling's mind as he stands on the scene of a Zeppelin raid : Some train of subconscious suggestion brought a long forgotten speech back into Mr. Britling's mind, a speech that is full of that light which still seeks so mysteriously and indefatigably to break through the darkness and thickness of the human mind.
Página 370 - Established Church and its deadening effect on education, our imperial obligations and the strain they made upon our supplies of administrative talent were all very serviceable for that purpose. But there in America was the old race, without Crown or Church or international embarrassment, and it was still falling short of splendour.