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384 APPENDIX, 12.
in perfection, envying, stealing, and lying, but without wit
enough to lie to purpose.
12. ROMANIST MODERN ART.
It is of the highest importance, in these days, that Romanism
should be deprived of the miserable influence which its pomp and
picturesqueness have given it over the weak sentimentalism of
the English people; I call it a miserable influence, for of all
motives to sympathy with the Church of Rome, this I unhesitatingly class as the basest: I can, in some measure, respect the other
feelings which have been the beginnings of apostasy; I can respect
the desire for unity which would reclaim the Romanist by love,,
and the distrust of his own heart which subjects the proselyte to
priestly power; I say I can respect these feelings, though I cannot
pardon unprincipled submission to them, nor enough wonder at
the infinite fatuity of the unhappy persons whom they have betrayed:—Fatuity, self-inflicted, and stubborn in resistance to
God's Word and man's reason !—to talk of the authority of the
Church, as if the Church were anything else than the whole
company of Christian men, or were ever spoken of in Scripture *
as other than a company to be taught and fed, not to teach and
feed.—Fatuity ! to talk of a separation of Church and State, as
if a Christian state, and every officer therein, were not necessarily
a part of the Church, f and as if any state officer could do his
duty without endeavoring to aid and promote religion, or any
clerical officer do his duty without seeking for such aid and ac-
, cepting it:—Fatuity ! to seek for the unity of a living body of
truth and trust in God, wdth a dead body of lies and trust in
* Except in the single passage " tell it unto the Church," which is simply
the extension of what had been commanded before, i.e., tell the fault first
"betweenthee and him," then taking "with thee one or two more," then,
to all Christian men capable of hearing the cause: if he refuse to hear their
common voice, "let him be unto thee as a heathen man and publican:"
(But consider how Christ treated both.)
f One or two remarks on this subject, some of which I had intended to
have inserted here, and others in Appendix 5,1 have arranged in more consistent order, and published in a separate pamphlet, "Notes on the Construction of Sheep-folds," for the convenience of readers interested in other
architecture than that of Venetian palaces.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 1 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000446 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 384 APPENDIX, 12. in perfection, envying, stealing, and lying, but without wit enough to lie to purpose. 12. ROMANIST MODERN ART. It is of the highest importance, in these days, that Romanism should be deprived of the miserable influence which its pomp and picturesqueness have given it over the weak sentimentalism of the English people; I call it a miserable influence, for of all motives to sympathy with the Church of Rome, this I unhesitatingly class as the basest: I can, in some measure, respect the other feelings which have been the beginnings of apostasy; I can respect the desire for unity which would reclaim the Romanist by love,, and the distrust of his own heart which subjects the proselyte to priestly power; I say I can respect these feelings, though I cannot pardon unprincipled submission to them, nor enough wonder at the infinite fatuity of the unhappy persons whom they have betrayed:—Fatuity, self-inflicted, and stubborn in resistance to God's Word and man's reason !—to talk of the authority of the Church, as if the Church were anything else than the whole company of Christian men, or were ever spoken of in Scripture * as other than a company to be taught and fed, not to teach and feed.—Fatuity ! to talk of a separation of Church and State, as if a Christian state, and every officer therein, were not necessarily a part of the Church, f and as if any state officer could do his duty without endeavoring to aid and promote religion, or any clerical officer do his duty without seeking for such aid and ac- , cepting it:—Fatuity ! to seek for the unity of a living body of truth and trust in God, wdth a dead body of lies and trust in * Except in the single passage " tell it unto the Church," which is simply the extension of what had been commanded before, i.e., tell the fault first "betweenthee and him," then taking "with thee one or two more," then, to all Christian men capable of hearing the cause: if he refuse to hear their common voice, "let him be unto thee as a heathen man and publican:" (But consider how Christ treated both.) f One or two remarks on this subject, some of which I had intended to have inserted here, and others in Appendix 5,1 have arranged in more consistent order, and published in a separate pamphlet, "Notes on the Construction of Sheep-folds," for the convenience of readers interested in other architecture than that of Venetian palaces. |
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