The Henson Journals

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Friday, August 28th, 1925.

Authority & Science were at one time in conflict over matters entirely within the province of the latter. The weapons were keen: and the strife bitter. We may rejoice that these antagonisms are now almost obsolete: one side has become more tolerant, the other less aggressive, & there is a disposition to respect each other's territories.

Prof. Horace Lamb. Presidential Address to the British Association. (Times. August 27th, 1925.)

The notion came into my head while dressing that I would write an article for the E.S. [Evening Standard] on "Ecclesiastical Courts", and, perhaps, another on "Erastianism". I wrote it accordingly, & with much hesitation decided to send it. After lunch I motored to Newcastle, & had my hair cut. Workmen were demolishing the buildings, and carting away the earth from the churchyard of S. Mary's, Gateshead, preparatory to the making of a new bridge over the Tyne.

Shebbeare brought Clement Webb & his wife to tea. I arrived in time to have some speech with him. Old Greenway from Eldon also turned up. He says that the colliery in his parish is embarrassed by the accumulation of unsaleable coal!

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