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M. RENAN'S HIBBERT LECTURES[15]
[15] Guardian1, 14th April 1880.
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The object of M. Renan's lectures at St. George's Hall is, as we understand him, not merely to present a historical sketch3 of the influence of Rome on the early Church, but to reconcile the historical imagination with the results of his own and kindred speculations4 on the origin of Christianity. He has, with a good faith which we do not question, investigated the subject and formed his conclusions upon it. He on the present occasion assumes these investigations6, and that he, at any rate, is satisfied with their result. He hardly pretends to carry the mixed popular audience whom he addresses into any real inquiry7 into the grounds on which he has satisfied himself that the received account of Christianity is not the true one. But he is aware that all minds are more or less consciously impressed with the broad difficulty that, after all attempts to trace the origin of Christianity to agencies and influences of well-understood human character, the disproportion between causes and effects still continues to appear excessive. The great Christian5 tradition with its definite beliefs about the conditions of man's existence, which has shaped the fortunes and determined8 the future of mankind on earth, is in possession of the world as much as the great tradition of right and wrong, or of the family, or of the State. How did it get there? It is most astonishing that it should have done so, what is the account of it? Of course people may inquire into this question as they may inquire into the basis of morality, or the origin of the family or the State. But here, as on those subjects, reason, and that imagination which is one of the forces of reason, by making the mind duly sensible of the magnitude of ideas and alternatives, are exacting9
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