“That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.”

—  James Anthony Froude , book The Nemesis of Faith

Letter X
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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