Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Henry Festing Jones
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produced by any intellectual process.
"Enough to say, 'I feel Love's sure effect, and, being loved, must love The love its cause behind,--I can and do.'"[A] [Footnote A: _A Piller at Sebzevar_.] Reason, in trying to scale the heights of truth, falls-back, impotent and broken, into doubt and despair; not by that way can we come to that which is best and highest. "I found Him not in world or sun, Or eagle's wing, or insect's eye; Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun."[B] [Footnote B: _In Memoriam_.] But there is another way to find God and to conquer doubt. "If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice 'believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking-shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; "A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd 'I have felt.'"[A] |
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