This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Christianity, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Christianity on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ChristianityWikipedia:WikiProject ChristianityTemplate:WikiProject ChristianityChristianity articles
In "Life", paragraph 1, what does "In fact he was never deprived of any of his posts, due to his ingenuity of the system.[5]" mean? If it means he was "ingenuous", that is to say, perhaps, without guile or covert political intention, perhaps "ingenuousness" would be preferable to "ingenuity", to avoid the suggestion of cunning or contrivance more usually contained in the latter? And if so, then to which "system" does it refer? - to the University system, or to the Church of England's system, or to a "System" of Theology? Or perhaps to all of these, i.e. to the "Social System"? Then again, can one be ingenuous of anything? Surely ingenuousness is a general aspect of character, not a particular one? In what sense was his non-deprivation due to this - was this a time-elapsed credit upon the balance of his account, or was it rather the result of, or in consideration of, or owing to, his ingenuousness? I venture to suggest that "due to his ingenuity of the system" is an impenetrable expression, and ought to be replaced by something comprehensible, if anyone knows what the writer was attempting to say.Eebahgum (talk) 11:43, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
