[Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore]@TWC D-Link bookPhyllis of Philistia CHAPTER VI 8/18
Oh, Phyllis, my child, don't talk nowadays of orthodoxy or the other--what do they call it ?--heterodoxy.
Mr. Holland's name will be in everyone's mouth for the next year at least, and if his bishop or a friendly church warden prosecutes him, and the thing is worked up properly, he ought to be before the public for the next five years." "Oh, Ella!" "I'm not overstating the case, I assure you, my dear.
A man was telling me about one Colenso--he was, so far as I could gather, a first-class man at algebra and heresy and things like that.
He was Bishop of Zanzibar or Uganda or some place, and he wrote a book about Moses--showing that Moses couldn't have written something or other. Well, he took a bit of prosecuting, five or six years, I believe, and he didn't go nearly so far as Mr.Holland does in that book of his.
All this time people talked about little else but Colenso, and his books made him a fortune.
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