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charmed him, till he removed a little away frolance at it again, it fell

away too, and proved to be the saey Ivanovitch advised hiical

works of Homiakov Levin read the second voluraumentative

style which at first repelled him, he was impressed by the

doctrine of the church he found in them He was struck at first

by the idea that the apprehension of divine truths had not been

vouchsafed to ether by

love--to the church What delighted hiht howchurch,

e God at its head, and

therefore holy and infallible, and from it to accept the faith in

God, in the creation, the fall, the redein

with God, a mysterious, far-away God, the creation, etc But

afterwards, on reading a Catholic writer's history of the church,

and then a Greek orthodox writer's history of the church, and

seeing that the two churches, in their very conception

infallible, each deny the authority of the other, Homiakov's

doctrine of the church lost all its charm for him, and this

edifice crumbled into dust like the philosophers' edifices