Ten Degrees Backward. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
companions rather than the stodgy old pilgrims who looked down at their beads and limped on their peas."
"But the pilgrims were adventurous too," I argued. "Remember there are adventures of the soul as well as of the body, and to my mind the tramp of the paid legionaries, marching stolidly up the hill in the wake of the Roman eagles, was nothing like so thrilling an adventure as the descent of the same hill by the bands of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. The Roman soldier had no individual interests: he was part of a huge system or machine. It mattered little to him personally whether the particular eagle which he followed hovered over Britain or over Gaul."
Here Arthur interrupted me. "The pilgrim was part of a huge system also, only his system was not called an Empire, but a Church."
"Precisely," I answered; "and there is where the greater adventurousness of the pilgrim comes in; for it is far more exciting to belong to a Church than to an Empire."
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