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THE RELIGION OF A SCEPTIC

inative spirits, again and again, into the hands of these assassins of freedom.

What one has to do is to find not less beauty, but more beauty, than the reactionaries themselves are able to find in these real-unreal myths.

The mere fact that such reactionaries are so perturbed about "the fate of their souls" debars them from enjoying the enchanted moonlight of these sacred groves.

The morbid question "Am I saved?" is like a dark and criminal cap drawn over a person's face just at the moment when the landscape before him lies floating in a wavering light as lovely as that of a great diffused sea-pearl.

The history of the human race, as far as it touches the happiness and unhappiness of individual lives, has yet to be written.

There are moments in the days of all men and women when the things of their life fall suddenly and strangely into a new focus, the name whereof, the clue whereto, must for ever remain unuttered.

But these are the moments when a strange justification of all that we have endured seems on the verge of being realized.

Such moments can in no sense be regarded as rational. They bear only a very faint and indirect relation to what we call moral issues. The most rarefied essence of love itself is so trans-

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