Religion & insanity / by Charles Williams.

  • Charles Williams
Date:
1909
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Credit: Religion & insanity / by Charles Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from any reverse, was in the zenith of my prosperity. To my fall into Atheism, then, and to no other cause, must be attributed this terrible wreck of happiness— to it, and it alone, must be ascribed all my misery, all my despair.” The writer, it is true, admits that all cul- tured and intellectual persons are not so profoundly and seriously injured mentally by loss of faith as he was, but even if this be the case he doubts whether there is a single one who can honestly stand up and say that he does not long and yearn again for the faith of his childhood ; “ one who, if you ask him, will be able to look you in the face and deny that the universe to him has not lost its soul of loveliness ; that he does not occasionally, when he thinks—as think at times he must—of the appalling contrast between the hallowed glory of that creed which once was his, and the lonely mystery of existence as now he finds
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