The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, May 16th, 1911.

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~~Maxims & first principles are subject to revolutions, and we are to go to chronology for the epochas of right and wrong. A very humoursome [sic] justice this, which is bounded by a river or a mountain: Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.~~

Pascal. Thoughts p. 197.

I attended a meeting of the Psycho–therapy Committee. Dr Bramwell & Dr Wright attended, both being eminent as healers by suggestion. They were extremely interesting. Both were decisive against any notion of a power, whether natural or religious, outside suggestion.

We dined with Mrs Taylor. On my return I found a letter from Hodder & Stoughton enclosing a proof of my little book with an opinion of their lawyers to the effect that they wd be exposed to prosecution by the "Church Times", & Mr Mackay, if they published my Introduction as it stands!! This is grotesque: but it gives me the opportunity of cutting out a personal apologetic (which I wasn't proud of) & connecting this little volume with the [209]

• Sir Dyce Duckworth. 28 Grosvenor Place. S.W.
• Dr H. G. G. Mackenzie. 74 Wimpole Street W
• Dr W. McAdam Eccles 124 Harley Street W.

• Rev. A. Robinson
• Hon & Rev. J. W. Northcote
• Revd Mr Cameron.
• Rev. Canon Child
• Canon Hensley Henson
• Archdeacon Sinclair
• Geoffrey Rhoades.

episode of the Bishop of Hereford. I decided to re–write the objectionable part of the Introduction, & add the Appendix on "The excluding Rubric", which I had designed for addition to the Scottish Lecture. Could meekness go further?

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Issues and controversies: psycho-therapeutic committee