...one's reason for the sake of some religious belief results in moral corruption of the personality: "He, who begins by loving Christianity better than...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." 1 " There can be no stronger moral claim in defense of the life of reason. The words of Coleridge and...

...untried. GK CHESTERTON (1874-1936). British author. What's Wrong With the World, pi. 1, ch. 5 (1910). 13 {Ş @>4 H r $U {a V { Ю mv p ; LE R } 1~ 9 a tg 4 .ɫ8 s r6; @ ! r V tc SAMUEL TA YL OR COLERIDGE (1 772-1834). English poet, critic. Aids to Reflection, 'Moral and Religious...

...feet. Reply to the Synod s Edict of Excommunication, and to Jitters ^Received by <j!(Ce Concerning It "He who begins by loving Christianity better than...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than nil." — COLERIDGE. At first I did not wish to reply to the Synod's Edict about me, but it has called...

...GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, (1874-1936) British author. What's Wrong With the World, pt. 1, ch. 5 (1910). 5 He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth,...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, no. 25 (1825), repr. in Works, vol. 1, ed. Professor Shedd (1853). Bear the...

...not be frightened of the search for greater understanding. Samuel Taylor Coleridge put it this way: He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth...own sect or Church better than Christianity and end by loving himself better than all. If we refuse to seek the truth, if we retreat behind our own certainties...

...make the object of faith imaginary. All would no doubt agree in some sense with Coleridge's aphor-ism: 'He who begins by loving Christianity, better than...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.' The difficulty is that while this can be taken in the spirit of absolutely unrestricted free inquiry—'to...

...of the clear principles he enunciated. By the way, he quotes elsewhere Coleridge's pungent aphorism: 'He who begins by loving Christianity better than...proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christiantiy, and end in loving himself better than all.' Yours very sincerely Ernest Jones reprint...

...as their paramount obligation. A characteristic formulation of it might be quoted by way of example: 'He, who begins by loving Christianity better than...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.':*8 The fact that men like Coleridge, Hare and Maurice disliked clerical controversy and looked...

...1960), p. 83. 26. The problem and its possible consequences are admirably summed up by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "He who begins by loving Christianity,...Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." Coleridge, Aids To Reflection (London, 1825), p. 101; quoted by Daniel Hardy in his essay, "God and...

...I will live Thy Protestant to be. Robert Herrick, To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything (1648) 20 He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth...own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all. ST Coleridge, Aids to Reflection ( 1 825) 21 All protestantism,...