Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III CHBIST AND THE CHHISTIAN So Fab I have ignored one important fact about Christianity—That it is the most personal of all religions. For the Christian, Christ is not, first of all, a teacher, but Himself. Whether you call Him God or man, these are only words used to insist upon the fact that He is Himself and that the Christian's desire is not salvation or righteousness or any generality, but to be like Christ. He is one who has fallen in love with Christ; und the peculiarity of the Christian religion and of the Christian character spring out of this fact. For the Christian aims at being a real person with all the intense reality and particu-larity of that person. To him Aristotle's or "any other ideal man is vague and unreal. He knows the man he would be like; and that man is Christ. Christ is the greatest figure in history, as Hamlet is the greatest figure in art, because of His reality; and He still has the power, because of this reality, to make men' fall in love with Him in spite of all their prejudices. Mr. George Moore, who, I suppose, believes no single article of the Creed, has fallen in love with Him and has written a book about Him asif he had met Him. It is like a memoir written with the licence of an artist and a lover, like another gospel as different from the Gospels as Mr. Moore is different from the evangelists, but still clearly about the same person. And he is more at one with them than he supposes, because his subject and his passion are the same as theirs. So great is the reality of Christ to us that we read the Gospels with an interest continually baulked. We guess at more about Him than they tell us. We seem to know even, when they tell us wrong, when they have misunderstood Him, or when they have, unwittingly, changed His words or His...