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Gerald Heard

 

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Gerald Heard : Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man

Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & suggestive & firm for 200 pages: then a mere bleat bitter repetition contorsion [sic] & inversion [...] he's nothing to offer, once he's done his historical accounting.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

Gerald Heard : The Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer

Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, because, though greater than any of his generation, he was younger, he belonged, by the creative power which he allowed to keep flowing in renewal through him, to a generation of men, who even now after two thousand years, have yet to be born.' Forster then notes: 'Thus does Gerald Heard spice up his urge to prayer in The Creed of Christ. Have written (20-9-41) a letter to him which I ought to have transcribed. Like other priests, he so emphasises the perils of mis-prayer that one feels it was wise never to have started.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

 

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