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Excerpt from Pilgrims of the Lonely Road
This reshaping of material beneath the author's hand has made it hard to find a fit name for the studies, for here, when all is said and done, is not so much a study of certain books of the spirit as of certain pilgrims of the lonely road who set out in search of peace. No need to say that the records with which we are dealing do not exhaust the story of the search for peace; great regions are wholly unapproached, great masters not so much as named. But on the whole these men and their books are typical, es pecially of the quest as in¿uenced by what is deepest and most distinctive in Christianity. Only one man - Marcus Aurelius - is unin¿uenced by the Christian spirit and ih deed there is not a little in the life of the great stoic em peror which suggests, as Martha has said, that some breath of Christianity itself had already begun to draw down into his life and philosophy. Marcus Aurelius apart, all the rest of this fellowship have been so germinally in¿uenced by Christian conceptions in all the action and reaction of their lives that without Christianity it is utterly impossible to imagine what they would have been. Here is a body of very great literature which is inexplicable except as we discern through and behind it the play of great domi nant Christian conceptions and experiences.
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