Another quote from Mauriac which I shall savour & ponder: I imagine Marx reading the Apologia, Newman reading Das Kapital, & each heaving a sigh, amazed that any man should be so blind & so absurd
Actually I had not realised that the two books were published so close together. I think I can just about imagine Newman reading Capital – though not, perhaps in the German edition - but I find it impossible to imagine Marx reading Apologia
When thinking about history – even recent history, such as the 1960s - there is always this tendency to stick a label on: The Age of …
Whether you prefer to think of the 1860s as the Age of Marx, or the Age of Newman, fact is, both did exist
