The World’s Tragedy

IV PREFACE. railways were not mentioned in the Bible ! Of course the practice of finding a text for everything means ultimately “ I will do as I like ”, and I suspect my father’s heroics only meant that he thought a slump was coming. Their attitude to human reason, too, was simply won- derful. Some Wicked Man would point out that the Jonah story was contrary to our experience of possibility. THE P. B. — The word is not “ whale ” in the Hebrew : it probably means “ dog-shark ”. (This “ solution ” is actually printed in a book of the liar and slanderer Torrey). THE W. M. — Our experience of dog-sharks tells us — THE P. B. — What, after all, is human reason ? To the Greeks foolishness, etc. The wisdom of man is foolishness, etc. We must have faith. THE W. M. — In men ? THE P. B. — Never. In God ! THE W. M. — But you believe in the Bible ? THE P. B. — Every word of it, thank God ! THE W. M. — In the Protestant or the Catholic Bible ? The Bible was written by men, translated by men, criti-