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Religious Instruction 289
conscience he daily sacrifices to many gods in
whom he does not believe.
How illogical Protestantism is too, and yet
for so long it possessed a spiritually educat-
ive power, while its dualism was unsuspected,
while one with full sincerity gave to holiday
and work day its due share. But now that
a new Protestantism is come to life within the
fold of Protestantism, this method of speaking
in two voices is deeply demoralising.
Piece by piece has been torn down that sys-
tem of teaching which the Catholic church
built up, so wonderfully adapted to the psy-
chological needs of the majority of people.
It formed its fundamental creeds, just as
they still remain, on the deepest experiences of
mankind. But Protestantism is ever looking
back from the results of its own handiwork.
In home, in the school, in the high school,
during military service, in ofiice work, every-
where passive dependence is insisted on under
the name of discipline, discretion, faithfulness
to duty. And like all the fine words, by which
the living souls of men are turned into the
slaves of discipline, these terms exalt esprit
de corps, and pass over really serious faults.
Discipline means subordinating one’s self to
every crude force. Only when all Protestants
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