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“Or a necessity like other necessities!”
“Enough! I am no atheist, but I think the
Almighty does not wish to be addressed in such
intimate terms as formerly. These flatteries of
the Deity belong to the past, and personally I
agree with the Mohammedans, who only ask for
the gift of resignation in order to support the
burden Destiny imposes upon them with dignity.”
Significant words, from which I extract some
grains of gold for myself. He carries away my
breviary and Bible, and says: “Read indifferent
matters of secondary interest, world histories,
or mythologies, and leave idle dreaming.
Above all things, beware of occultism, that
caricature of science. It is forbidden to us to
spy out the Creator’s secrets, and woe to them
who seek to do so!”
On my objecting that the occultists in Paris
form a whole body by themselves, he only says,
“All the worse for them.” In the evening he
brings me, without any ulterior purpose, I am
sure, Victor Rydberg’s German Mythology.
“Here is something to send you to sleep,
standing. It is better than sulphonal.”
If my good friend had known what a spark
he was throwing into a keg of powder, he would
rather——
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