The Henson Journals

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Thursday, February 16th, 1928.

["]The great revolutions have usually commenced from the top, not from the bottom; but once the people is unchained it is to the people that revolution owes its might.["]

Gustave le Bon. 29

I wrote an article "Concerning Fanaticism" for the Evening Standard, and sent it to the Editor.

Spencer Wade came to lunch, & afterwards walked with me in the Park. I offered him the living of Gateshead Fell, stipulating that he should cease to give lectures in order to devote himself to the parish. He was to talk the matter over with his wife, & let me know his decision. I wrote to Kenneth, and sent him the fee (£3.) for his examination.

The newspapers are filled with accounts & portraits of Lord Oxford. If the verdict of Heaven endorses the eulogies of Earth, he has an easy passage to eternal felicity.

I wrote to the Bishop of South Florida (Cameron Mann) thanking him for the 'Concordance to the Poems of G. Herbert' which he has prepared with infinite labour, & which he sent me as a Christmas present. It is really a notable achievment [sic] & very serviceable.