“Faith did not require less exercise than any other living thing, and was not all the better for a shaking up now and then.”

Suggesting that healthy faith can survive and benefit from intellectual examination · Religious reflections quoted in the memoir

• Doubt
• Faith
• Growth

“I should violate the unity of my character if I did not open my communication with an apology.”

A humorous acknowledgement of his habitual lateness in correspondence · Letter to Phineas Barnes

• Character
• Humour
• Letters

“The great multitude is swept along in the main current of inherited beliefs, but not rarely under the influence of new teachings, of developing instincts.”

Reflecting on the tension between inherited ideas and the forces that reshape belief · Autobiographical Notes

• Belief
• Change
• Ideas