In the nineteenth section of Religio Medici we find the physician in a striking pose. It is so ludicrous, yet so thoroughly representative, that we feel as though we might at last have found the secret double spring of his sanity and his insanity. He appears before us as an exhaustive scholar, an inexpert layman,Continue reading “Smatterings of the Philosopher’s Stone – Chapter 2, part 4 – Broadmindedness”
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Smatterings of the Philosopher’s Stone – Chapter 2, part 3: On Protestants and the Peace of the Church
The wonder of it is that, being a man of his time, the humble physician can call it ‘uncharitable to fall upon those popular scurrilities and opprobrious scoffs at the Bishop of Rome,’ or say that, not forgetting the ‘general charity he owes to humanity,’ he rather pities than hates ‘Turks, infidels’ and (most malignedContinue reading “Smatterings of the Philosopher’s Stone – Chapter 2, part 3: On Protestants and the Peace of the Church”
Smatterings of the Philosopher’s Stone – Chapter 2, part 1: On Moderation
It goes without saying that we live in an age of extremes; chiefly because it goes with a lot of saying. As a matter of fact, we live in an age of moderation, too, and, it may be, of more moderation than extremes. Of course there are those who would abolish private property, whom weContinue reading “Smatterings of the Philosopher’s Stone – Chapter 2, part 1: On Moderation”
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