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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    contracted intellect. Be it so; but I tell you, as I have told others elsewhere, that you are altogether mistaken ; that it was nothing of the sort; that it was, in fact, only the natural outcome of my condition. There was more than sufficient to account for it. What! No cause for grief when you have taken my God away from me, and I know not where you have laid Him ? What! No cause for grief when you have robbed me of Heaven and Immortality? What! No reason for sorrowing when you have snatched the cup of consolation from one to whom its contents had hitherto been so sweet? No ground for despair when you have deprived me of that which was the the mainspring of nearly all my happiness and without which life is not worth living! Why, the wonder is that I was able even to survive under this heavy, crushing calamity. No, when I sorrowed, believe me it was (for I know it now) a healthy
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