The Henson Journals

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Thursday, September 25th, 1924.

I think it very important to insist that the world as known to science is just as much a kingdom of values as the world known to religion. The difficulty is that the values are not the same.

W. R. Inge. August, 1924.

I left mine host's house in good time to catch the train, which Alexander had appointed for me, but when I arrived at the station, I learned that the time–table had been changed last Saturday & my train was "off". So I kicked my heels for more than an hour at Leeds before starting for York by a slow train. There another delay of half–an–hour, & then another slow train to Darlington, where I arrived at 1.40 p.m., & found Leng with the car.

I corrected the proofs of the Sunderland Sermon, & returned them to the printers.

Knight and Wilson, who had been engaged at Eldon in instituting Greenway, the new Vicar, dined here, & I had some talk with Knight about diocesan matters.

I wrote to Anson Phelps Stokes answering his enquiry about the charlatan parson, Fearn, and to Nicholas Murray Butler, thanking him for his anti–Prohibitionist paper. Also I wrote to inquire of his former vicar what might be the character of Mack.

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