A man who is not careful in destroying a fallacy may damage a truth.
But let us be grateful for his public utterances, which show a high spirit, a noble devotion, an enviable range of culture, and, for the discerning at least, tell the true time of day.

It is one of the encouraging signs of the period that such distinguished preaching should have made a mark.

Moreover, he is yet three years from fifty, with a mind so hospitable to growth that it has no room for one of those prejudices which are the dry-nurses of old age.

Those who love truth die young, whatever their age.

Canon Barnes may yet give the Church a proof of his power to lead--a Church at present aware only of his power to suggest.
He considers that we are living in a time of revolution, and, judging by historic precedents, particularly the Renaissance, he thinks we are now in the second stage of our revolution, which is the most difficult of all.