"Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
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"I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one f...
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"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find ...