Modernism by William C. Irvine

MODERN Modernism takes its direct descent from Higher Criticism. It builds its castles on the shifting sands of the so-called “assured results” of “critical Scholarship.” But the true origin of this deadly heresy can be traced to a garden—which garden all Modernists do their best to legendarize—therein the first tragedy of Modernism took place. “As for Modernism,” said the Warden of a Madras College, “people make a mistake when they think it is a new fad or that it is of a mushroom growth. Modernism, as a certain mode of thinking, is as old as Mother Eve.” How very true, for Satan was the first of the cult and on his first introduction to—or rather intrusion on—the human race, his first words were: “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”