This seeking, he observes, is among the latest utterances of theology, a fact of considerable importance.

To keep abreast of truth one must neither go back nor stand still.

Men are now not so much swallowing great names as looking for a candle.
Not long ago he paid a visit to a favourite bookshop of his in Cambridge, and inquired for second-hand volumes of theology.

"I have nothing here," replied the bookseller, "that would interest you.

The books you would like go out the day after they come in, sometimes the same day." Then pointing to the upper shelves, "But I've plenty of the older books"; and there in the dust and neglect of the top shelves Canon Barnes surveyed the works of grave and portentous theologians who wrote, some before the days of Darwin, and some in the first heyday of Darwinism.