Excerpt from The Globe, Vol. 11: New Review of World-Literature, Society, Religion, Art and Politics
I am glad to say of this book at the outset that I consider it one of the most thorough, painstaking and admirable pieces of work that I have had the pleasure of reading for a number of years. I do not in all cases approve of the attitude of the mind of the author toward Savonarola. I cannot agree with all his conclusions, and, I think some of them morally contradictory, though, in the main, they are temperate and discriminating, but with a dash only of charity rather than that fulness of beneficence we would like to see manifested by one religious toward another, especially in the supreme hour of affliction, and of untimely and cruel death.
On the other hand, I do not by any means agree with what seems to me the inconsiderate and undiscriminating laudation of Savonarola by those who accept his inexcusable blunders as evidence of sainthood, and who suspect all those who have taken or still take a different view as being under the influence of some hatred, jealousy or hypocrisy.
I think that in a middle course the truth will be found, and the purpose of this review is to find it and declare it.
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