 | 1869 - 434 pages
...— " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At lasl he beat his music our.. There lives mure faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts, and gathi r'd strength ; He would not make his judgment blind; He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid... | |
 | Mark S. Micale, Robert L. Dietle, Peter Gay - 2000 - 554 pages
...voyage of discovery overlapped with Newman's, the experience of other lands and peoples was crucial. There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam AH H.5 5 It is not hard to see that the correspondent of the... | |
 | Hubert Harrison - 2001 - 510 pages
...all things where proof is possible," is also willing "to suspend judgement where there is no proof." "Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lies more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." In Memoriam. Kind Christian... | |
 | Paul Zimmer - 2002 - 266 pages
...in a place where angels descend and make their gentle marks in the snow. The Condition of My Faith There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A JEWISH RABBI FRIEND surprised me twenty-five years ago, after... | |
 | Leonard Feinberg - 2002 - 236 pages
...these questions, and it is hypocritical to pretend that such queries are blasphemous. Tennyson wrote: There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Attitudes toward deities vary from total reverence at one extreme to the kind of quid-proquo relationship... | |
 | Gisela Argyle - 2002 - 284 pages
...continues to grow after his death. His life and death illustrate Tennyson's assertion in In Memoriam that "There lives more faith in honest doubt / Believe me, than in half the creeds" (elegy 96). Most of the German allusions are found in the middle part of the novel, which portrays... | |
 | Lawrence Rosen - 2002 - 249 pages
...been variously commended, from Shakespeare ("Modest doubt is cal'd the Beacon of the wise"), Tennyson ("There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds"), and Holmes ("To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man"), to popular... | |
 | Edward Alexander - 198 pages
...experience allowed, albeit tentatively,6 and doubt celebrated at least as much as faith. (Tennyson: "There lives more faith in honest doubt/ Believe me, than in half the creeds" [section 96], Wieseltier: "It is not only faith that humbles, Doubt humbles, too,,,, doubt is the candor... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2002 - 234 pages
...not."76 The immensely popular In Memoriam contained other lines that could well be applied to Darwin: There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.77 If this outlook on faith is valid, then Darwin, who questioned established doctrine in the... | |
 | Tod E. Jones - 2003 - 362 pages
...Thus, he wrote of Hallam's struggles to find religious truth as though they were his own struggles: Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 298 As Maurice listened, it was natural for him to think of Sterling. In that friend, beneath the figments... | |
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Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 
