Addresses And Reprints, 1850-1907 : Published And Unpublished Work Representing the Literary And Philosophical Life of the Author
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Insignificant St. Martin's will not do for a Christ allied to Royalty. Since then the glacial centuries have moved on, each scratching a sign of its march on some stone of the build- ing yonder. The most notable spot in the Cathedral, to my mind, was one of which no one has been able to give any account. Canterbury was the place of splendid shrines, and religious history is full of the accounts of pilgrimages to them from all parts of the world. Of these, the most distinguished was that of St. ...Thomas a Becket, a mass of gold and AN OLD SHRINE 209 gems. The great historic shrines have all their original positions well known, and in front of some of them are the marks of pilgrims' knees. But about none of these great shrines are such evidences of popular devotion as about the mysterious spot on one side ; of which there is no his- tory or trace except the pavement which pilgrims' knees have worn into hollows. Who was this unknown God? Had it been found necessary to invest a Christian Saint with the sanctity of some image of the native religion?
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