Infallibility, a notion of Hellenic origin, is in its essence a
rationalistic category.
Let us now consider the rationalist or scientific solution--or, more
properly, dissolution--of our problem.
FOOTNOTES:
[13] Erwin Rohde, _Psyche_, "Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der
Griechen." Tuebingen, 1907. Up to the present this is the leading work
dealing with the belief of the Greeks in the immortality of the soul.
[14] Gal. ii. 20.
[15] On all relating to this question see, among others, Harnack,
_Dogmengeschichte_, ii., Teil i., Buch vii., cap. i.
[16]
Though we are become dust,
In thee, O Lord, our hope confides,
That we shall live again clad
In the flesh and skin that once covered us.
[17] _Libra de la Conversion de la Magdelena_, part iv., chap. ix.
[18] In his exposition of Protestant dogma in _Systematische christliche
Religion_, Berlin, 1909, one of the series entitled _Die Kultur der
Gegenwart_, published by P. Hinneberg.
[19] The common use of the expression _musica celestial_ to denote
"nonsense, something not worth listening to," lends it a satirical
byplay which disappears in the English rendering.--J.E.C.F.
[20] It is not Thy promised heaven, my God, that moves me to love Thee.
(Anonymous, sixteenth or seventeenth century. See _Oxford Book of
Spanish Verse_, No. 106.)
[21] _Essai sur l'indifference en matiere de religion_, part iii.
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