George Eliot - The Essays of George Eliot

Here we have the remarkable psychological phenomenon of an “acute and enlightened” man who, deliberately purposing to indulge in a favorite sin, and regarding the Gospel with scorn and unbelief, is, nevertheless, so much more scrupulous than the majority of Christians, that he cannot “embrace sin and the Gospel simultaneously;” who is so alarmed at the Gospel in which he does not believe, that he cannot be easy without trying to crush it; whose acuteness and enlightenment suggest to him, as a means of crushing the Gospel, to argue from day to day with Dr. Cumming; and who is withal so naïve that he is taken by surprise when Dr. Cumming, failing in argument, resorts to accusation, and so tender in conscience that, at the mention of his sin, he turns pale and leaves the spot. If there be any human mind in existence capable of holding Dr. Cumming’s “Creed of the Infidel,” of at the same time believing in tradition and “believing in all unbelief,” it must be the mind of the infidel just described, for whose existence we have Dr. Cumming’s ex officio

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1. “Madame de Sablé. Etudes sur les Femmes illustres et la Société du XVIIe siècle.” Par M. Victor Cousin. Paris: Didier. 2. “Portraits de Femmes.” Par C. A. Sainte-Beuve. Paris: Didier. 3. “Les Femmes de la Revolutions.” Par J. Michelet.

Queen Christina, when Mme. Dacier (then Mlle. Le Fèvre) sent her a copy of her edition of “Callimachus,” wrote in reply: “Mais vous, de qui on m’assure que vous êtes une belle et agréable fille, n’avez vous pas honte d’être si savante?”

The letter to which we allude has this charming little touch: “Je hais comme la mort que les gens de son age puissent croire que j’ai des galanteries. Il semble qu’on leur parait cent ans des qu’on est plus vieille qu’eux, et ils sont tout propre à s’étonner qu’il y ait encore question des gens.”

1. “The Church before the Flood.” By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. 2. “Occasional Discourses.” By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. In two vols. 3. “Signs of the Times; or, Present, Past, and Future.” By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. 4. “The Finger of God.” By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. 5. “Is Christianity from God? or, a Manual of Christian Evidence, for Scripture-Readers, City Missionaries, Sunday-School Teachers, etc.” By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. 6. “Apocalyptic Sketches; or, Lectures on the Book of Revelation.” First Series. By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. 7. “Apocalyptic Sketches.” Second Series. By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D. 8 “Prophetic Studies; or, Lectures on the Book of Daniel.” By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D.

“Lect. on Daniel,” p. 6.

“Man of Ev.” p. 81.