These men were conscious of the Fall, if they were conscious of nothing else; and the same is true of all heathen humanity. Those who have fallen may remember the fall, even when they forget the height. Some such tantalising blank or break in memory is at the back of all pagan sentiment.

“The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the…”

“Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing – say Pimlico. If we th…”

“What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to…”

“People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible…”