. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . *l < 5 < t: O o :^ o J ,-. S _ !J o = ^ ci > 2 H —1 u o K £- (75 ll O §.K LUCIUS GARY 121 influence. Ol this there is no good evidence, but his thoughtswere continually occupied by religious subjects. As Sucklingcomplained, he became gone with divinity, and abandoned literaryfor philosophic pursuits. Falkland was not a great or originalthinker, but he had an earnest and sincere desire to discovertruth. Consequently he readily became the disciple and the firmfriend of Chillingworth, who was a frequent guest at his Oxfordshire
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . *l < 5 < t: O o :^ o J ,-. S _ !J o = ^ ci > 2 H —1 u o K £- (75 ll O §.K LUCIUS GARY 121 influence. Ol this there is no good evidence, but his thoughtswere continually occupied by religious subjects. As Sucklingcomplained, he became gone with divinity, and abandoned literaryfor philosophic pursuits. Falkland was not a great or originalthinker, but he had an earnest and sincere desire to discovertruth. Consequently he readily became the disciple and the firmfriend of Chillingworth, who was a frequent guest at his Oxfordshiremansion. Under his auspices Falkland wrote his Discourse ofInfallibility, a plea for rationalism, as devoid of profundity as hisverses were of imagination. Nevertheless his attitude impressed hiscontemporaries, who could not fail to recognize a true tolerance anda sweet reasonableness in his nature, which more than compensatedfor his want of abusixe ferocity in controversy. To political questionshe apparently paid little heed until 1639, when he went as a volunteeron the expedition ag
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