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![1615 BENSON (ARTHUR C., born 1862). Author and Poet. President of Mag- dalene College, Cambridge. POLENG Trey -AUTOGRAPH LEPTER SIGNED. 7 p.,. ovo. Cambridge, October oth, .1@1 5. £2 2s ‘“¢,)..)=6Of course the difficulty belongs to all religions, that you have to take intuitions on trust. My brother Hugh, who died the other day, had every bit as strong intuitions about the Virgin and the Saints as Dr. Steiner about the Saturnians and Moon- men. Moreover my brother would have said, like Dr. Steiner, that they had come home to him as truth through miracle and revelation, and that if I too wanted to believe, I must believe them too, enter the Church, live that life. And he too would have said that I must not deny that wonders exist because I had not seen them. And yet my brother, and Dr. Steiner would each have denied each other’s wonders and intuitions—and indeed they are practically mutually exclusive. My brother would have said that the truth he knew was the only one, and that all others are false. . . . ‘“T recognise the beauty of the underlying idea in Catholicism, Anglicanism, Christian Science, and Dr. Steiner’s Occultism—but the dogmas of each of these conflict— yet I know beautiful, saintly, devoted characters inside each.’’ Etc., etc. 1616 | BENTON (THOMAS HART, 1782-1858). American Statesman. Known as ‘‘ Old Bullion,’’ from his opposition to the paper currency. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. hoage, Svo, OC! Street Fepruar,. 1556. 16s 3 I know it is almost impossible for you to get a chance to do anything in the House, and the way some [of] our leading friends are going on in the Senate, we shall be whipt before we begin to fight.’’ Etc. ; PON 7 / BERANGER (PIERRE JEAN DE, 1780-1857). French Song-Writer. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (IN FRENCH) TO MME. LEMAIRE. 2 Pp.7 Sm...ovo. —.N.D. £1 10s (Trans.):—‘‘ I have been obtaining information touching the question of the fine. I have been reassured by a consultation with M. Gentil, Receiver of ‘ Domains.’ whose duty it is to collect it as soon as a notification of such sentence is received, a notice is issued, which may be followed by a summons, then by seizure, and finally by execution, but all this with compulsory delays. M. Gentil seemed surprised when told of your fears, for he had neither given nor received any order of a kind, to cause you to fear such speedy proceedings. The person who saw him will keep me informed of all action that may be taken against you. In any case there are measures which are at least delaying. Here is one which should be taken if the summons is received: petition the Minister of Finance for a stay of execution, even if this demand is rejected the time it takes to pass through the official channels gives a fortnight in which to take precautions.’’ Etc.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31641994_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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