" And in one rather
obscure passage he seems to hint at the thought that Christ might
come again to shape this new religion.
Going round the world, Gilbert was finding his way home; the explorer
was rediscovering his native country. He himself has given us all the
metaphors for what was happening now in his mind. Without a single
Catholic friend he had discovered this wealth of Catholic truth and
he was still travelling. "All this I felt," he later summed it up in
_Orthodoxy_, "and the age gave me no encouragement to feel it. And
all this time I had not even thought of Catholic theology."
CHAPTER VI
Towards a Career
A CURIOUS LITTLE incident comes towards the end of
Gilbert's time at the Slade School. In a letter he wrote to
E. C. Bentley we see him, on the eve of his 21st birthday, being
invited to write for the _Academy_:
Mr. Cotton is a little bristly, bohemian man, as fidgetty as a
kitten, who runs round the table while he talks to you. When he
agrees with you he shuts his eyes tight and shakes his head.
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