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(1851) [MARC] Author: H. C. Andersen
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Faith and Knowledge.

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Truth can never be at variance with truth,
science can never militate against faith: we
naturally speak of them both in their purity:
they respond to and they strengthen man’s
most glorious thought: immortality. And yet
you may say, “I was more peaceful, I was
safer when, as a child, I closed my eyes on my
mother’s breast and slept without thought or
care, wrapping myself up simply in faith.” This
prescience, this compound of understanding in
everything, this entering of the one link into
the other from eternity to eternity, tears away

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