Excerpt from Theology and Human Problems: A Comparative Study of Absolute Idealism and Pragmatism as Interpreters of Religion; The Nathaniel William Taylor for 1909-10, Given Before the Divinity of Yale University
Most of these elaborate theological writings of the past are for our time what the wooden frigates of our navy were for the Civil War. On a certain day in Hampton Roads one monitor proved to be worth twenty frigates for the protection of the cause of the Union. The more intricate the scheme of spars and rigging on those stately vessels, the more fatally did they carry their crews down into the sea. There was a new situation to cope with, and hence new methods of defence and attack were te quired. In a similar way new situations con front us in the world of thought, and the Church militant must have its Ericssons and its Edisons as well as its officers of the line if it is to hold its ancient place in our civilization.
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