Cardinal Newman : John Henry Newman (1801-90), English theologian & writer.
... Compare: "Arise from the yearning that sobs in Nature's abyss" — Rose of God Page 385 "To light one step in front is all his hope" Compare: "One step enough for me"—Cardinal Newman "Our sympathies become our tortures" —Book VI, Canto I. Compare: "To each his suffering all are men Condemned alike to groan The feeling for another's suffering ...
... and unsystematic for me to remember the right models, though they must be there. 17 December 1931 About French or German songs I know nothing—but as for the English, except for a few like Cardinal Newman's hymn "Lead, kindly Light" they don't exist so far as I know,—I mean of course as regards their contents, manner, style. I believe in European music the words are of a very minor importance, they ...
... achievement and enlightenment. I ask not to dogmatise but to know as a jignāsu [an inquirer]. About French or German songs I know nothing—but as for the English, except for a few like Cardinal Newman's 30 hymn "Lead, kindly Light" they don't exist so far as I know—I mean of course as regards their contents, manner, style. I believe in European music the words are of a very minor importance... course, a matter of the psychology and the soul and the nature, it has nothing to do with any outer or artificial standards. Then as to the Avatar and the symbols. There is, it seems to me, a cardinal error in the modern insistence on the biographical and historical, that is to say, the external factuality of the Avatar, the incidents of his outward life. What matters is the spiritual Reality ...
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