Letter To "The Thinking Housewife" Concerning Her Admirable Publication Of A Passage By St. Francis Xavier, And How Francis' Observation Concerning "The Japanese" Squares With Tertullian, Hamlet and J.B.S. Haldane. Oh! And The "Magnum Mysterium"

 

Dear Laura,

You are to be commended for publishing St. Francis Xavier's description ot Japanese goodness. https://thinkinghousewife.com/st-francis-xavier-on-racial-differences/

His description of the Japanese tells me that the Japanese -- even without Jesus -  are, in the main, more virtuous than denizens of Christian nations.

Do you know of Church Father Tertullian's observation, "Anima naturaliter christiana?" https://share.google/aimode/rE7Y8MKuAe1U4J8wm

*****

Food for thought...

To this day, you can leave your bags outside airport bathrooms - right there on the corridor floor - and know they'll be there when you return. 

It's a big world.

Unimaginably big.

As Hamlet commented: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Or as British astrophysicist J.B.S. Haldane observed in the first half of the 20th century: 

https://share.google/aimode/3EAMNZyWcp3PAW8qj

JBS Haldane, Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane

Never underestimate the Magnum Mysterium which is, by nature, largely unknowable.

Pax et amor

Alan