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Posted on May 23, 2018May 13, 2018

“The puzzle which God had flung to me consisted of elements which needed for their solution not the head only, but the heart, the imagination, the intuitions; in fact, the entire human character had to deal with it.”

From “Confessions of a Convert”, R H Benson   This, then, I began to see more and more overwhelmingly: that it is possible, from the huge complications of history, philosophy,…

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