[28] His crucial period in early maturity, his “temptation in the wilderness,” is examined in my article “On Emerson’s ‘Grace’ and ‘Self-Reliance’” in the _New England Quarterly_, Vol. II, No. 1, 1929. [29] See the essays on Newman, Arnold, and Huxley in Robert Shafer’s _Christianity and Naturalism_, 1926. [30] See the chapter on him in Norman Foerster’s _American Criticism_, 1928. [31] An interesting critique bearing on this subject is “The Modern Distemper” by Professor Ralph Barton Perry in the _Saturday Review of Literature_, June 1, 1929. [32] Spenser’s _Faerie Queene_, Book I, canto 4. This great poetic fable would be studied in our schools and colleges with deeper emotion if its application to modern pride were not screened off by modern pride itself. [33] From _Parochial and Plain Sermons_, 1880, Vol. II, No. XXXI. [34] _A Preface to Morals_, p. 326. [35] From a review of my book _The Cycle of Modern Poetry_ in the _Times Literary Supplement_ (London), June 20, 1929. _Religion Without Humanism_ T. S. ELIOT I must rely, in these few pages, upon a brief summary of the limitations within which I believe humanism must work, which I published in the _Hound and Horn_, June, 1929. In that paper I stated my belief that humanism is in the end futile without religion. Here I wish to put forward briefly a view which seems to me equally important, the counterpart of the other, and one which ought to be more welcome to humanists. Having called attention to what I believe to be a danger, I am bound to call attention to the danger of the other extreme: the danger, a very real one, of _religion without humanism_.