...ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid...

...the Temple." — COLEHIDOE. " PerplexM in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out ; There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. " Ho fought Iris doubts and gathor'd strength ; Ho would not make his judgment blind ; He faced the...

...conclusions, dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me...thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own.1 • The course of his opinions, as we have seen, was often altered. At times he approached the...

...thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in halt the creeds: He fought his doubts and gathered strength...thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own.'z The course of his opinions, as we have seen, was often altered. At times he approached the strictness...

...conclusions dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds : * ERNEST RENAN : Essai$ de Morale, p. 138. He fought his doubts and gathered strength; He would not...

...because they have the sanction of impulse." These creed-haters will tell you plausibly enough that 1 ' There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds " : but you must beware lest, before you know it, their song have become " For God is not censorious...

...number of the Guardian observed that Tennyson never wrote such " nonsense" as the following : — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." I can only assure that uninformed critic that Tennyson not only wrote these " nonsensical" lines in...

...ever strove to make it true. Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength ; lie would not make his judgment blind ; lie faced the spectres of the mind, And laid tbem : thus...

...absolute impartiality ! English scepticism in our time is mostly of that sort of which it may be said — There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 25 It is honest, serious, and arises in most cases from the sincere interest taken in the subject....

..." In Memoriam," where the poet, speaking of one " perplext in faith but pure in deeds," says — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." The fretted shade of ancient trees lies on the mossy roof, and over the winding lane up to the village,...