215 (The Inferno)

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moments of life, we too can laugh with
self-conscious raillery.

How is it that you wish us to take earnestly
what is nothing but a huge bad joke?

For whom was Christ the Saviour? Consider
the most Christian of all Christians, our pious
Scandinavians, these anæmic, wretched, timid
creatures, who look as though they were
possessed. They seem to carry an evil spirit in
their hearts, and observe how most of their
leaders have ended in prison as criminals. Why
has their master delivered them over to the
enemy? Is religion a punishment, and Christ
an Avenger?

The sun shines, everyday life proceeds on its
usual course, the cheerful bustle of business
raises the spirits. Then one feels rebellious, and
challenges heaven with doubts. But when night,
silence, and loneliness reign, the heart beats, and
the breast suffers from constriction. Then one
jumps out of window into a hedge of thorns, and
humbly begs a physician for help, and seeks
someone to share the sleeping chamber.

Go again into your room, and you will find
someone is there; he is invisible, but you feel
his presence. Then go to the asylum, and ask

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