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sh divineBaruch de Spinosawith whommost
unexpectedlySebastian found himself in sympathymeeting the young
Jew's far-reaching thoughts half-wayto the confirmation of his own; and
he did not know that his visitorvery ready with the pencilhad taken his
likeness as they talked on the fly-leaf of his note-book. Alive to that
theological disturbance in the air all around himhe refused to be moved
by itas essentially a strife on small mattersanticipating a vagrant regret
which may have visited many other minds sincethe regretnamelythat
the oldpensiveuse-and-wont Catholicismwhich had accompanied the
nation's earlier struggle for existenceand consoled it thereinhad been
taken from it. And for himselfindeedwhat impressed him in that old
Catholicism was a kind of lull in it--a lulling power--like that of the
monotonous organ-musicwhich HollandCatholic or notstill so greatly
loves. But what he could not away with in the Catholic religion was its
unfailing drift towards the concrete--the positive imageries of a faithso
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richly beset with personsthingshistorical incidents.
Rigidly logical in the method of his inferenceshe attained the poetic
quality only by the audacity with whi yilai:
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