and you in the region where metaphysics is
monarch of all it surveys.

An outstanding theologian who, as it seems to me, overshadows Dean Inge,
commenting upon a piece of my writing which is quite as radical as any
part of this letter goes even further than he.

"I have," he says, "just read the Chapter of your Natural Gospel
for a Scientific Age, which you have kindly sent me, with the
greatest interest. Indeed I have come so heartily to share your
point of view that I can find no points for criticism; I can only
say how grateful I am to have had an opportunity of seeing your
uncompromising and clear expression of the only kind of Modernism
that has any promise for the future. I am beginning to feel more
and more uncomfortable in our Christian movement because so many of
our leaders here are attempting an impossible compromise with
dogma. Men like Dr. Rashdall have no place in the movement for men
who cannot accept their 'fullblooded theism.' In fact they are
Harnackians with their one or two unalterably fixed dogmas."

IV.

If you ask why I continue to be a member of an orthodox church and its
ministry, the answer is, there is no reason why I should not for (if
they may be interpreted by myself, for myself, spiritually) I accept
every article of the creed of catholic orthodoxy; but if the articles of
this creed must be interpreted literally there is no one in our church
(the Episcopal) or in any among the churches, who believes all of them.
For example, who believes, that God created the heavens and the earth
out of nothing in six days, as he is represented to have done in his
alleged revelation of which the creed is a condensation? All in this
church, or at least all the ministers of it, who have obeyed its
requirement respecting the devotion of themselves to study, as I have,
know that the firmament or heaven of which the revelation speaks has no
substantial existence, only an imaginary one. What was supposed to be
it, is but the reflection of light upon the dust of the atmosphere. As
for the earth it was not made out of nothing; and, indeed, it was not
supernaturally made at all but naturally evolutionized out of matter and
force, and even they were not created by a god, for they are co-existing
eternalities; nor were their evolutionary processes directed by him, for
they have eternally, automatically and necessarily co-operated in such
processes to