"What are we to do ?" He replies: "First, we must not be content to appeal to authority.

We must teach, fully teach, re-teach the truth on grounds of Scripture, reason, history, everything, so that we may have a party, a body which knows not only that it has got authority, but that it has got the truth and reason on its side." The claim is obviously courageous, the claim of a brave and noble man, but one wonders, Can it be made good?
It is a long time since evolution saw Athanasius laid in the grave, a long time since the Inquisition pronounced the opinions of Galileo to be heretical and therefore false.
"It is very hard to be a good Christian." Did Athanasius make it easier?
Did the Inquisition which condemned Galileo make it easier still?
Dr.Gore thinks that the supreme mistake of Christianity was placing itself under the protection and patronage of national governments.

It should never have become nationalised.

Its greatest and most necessitous demand was to stand apart from anything in the nature of racialism.
He mourns over an incoherent humanity; he seeks for unifying principles.
The religion of an Incarnation must have a message for the world, a message for the whole world, for all mankind.

Surely, surely.