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Excerpt from Mountain Pathways: A Study in the Ethics of the Sermon on the Mount, Together With a Revised Translation and Critical Notes Dear Mr. Waylen, You have asked me to say a word of good speed to your "Mountain Pathways," but how am I to say it without becoming a critic? 'Judge not, ' we read, 'that ye be not judged, ' and the main part of your work lies in a sphere in which I am not prepared to be criticised, and with regard to which, therefore, I do not intend to be a critic. But I can and do wish well to your little book, because in one important point it is an attempt to start prepared. Your interest lies in that wonderful borderland which has ethics on the one side, and the psychic influence of living beings on the other, hut nevertheless you do not despise the preparatory work of the grammarian and the scholar. Every authority has power in its proper sphere, and for the 'spiritual' interpreter to neglect the real and preliminary claims of technical learning is to plunge not into the free Empyraean, but into Chaos. There are really two ways of studying the Gospel, each of them necessary, and each, as we may believe, tending ultimately to the same resuAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."