| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: dear,' she said, with another burst of tearful merriment,
'for your charming pictures, which you must be sure to leave
me when you go;' and finally, protesting that she dared not
spoil the absurdest houseful of madmen in the whole of
London, departed (as she vaguely phrased it) for the
continent of Europe.
She was no sooner gone, than Somerset encountered in the
corridor the Irish nurse; sober, to all appearance, and yet a
prey to singularly strong emotion. It was made to appear,
from her account, that Mr. Jones had already suffered acutely
in his health from Mrs. Luxmore's visit, and that nothing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: golden light of his kingdom, to fight for his kingdom henceforth,
until at last we are altogether taken up into his being.
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
THE RELIGION OF ATHEISTS
1. THE SCIENTIFIC ATHEIST
It is a curious thing that while most organised religions seem to
drape about and conceal and smother the statement of the true God,
the honest Atheist, with his passionate impulse to strip the truth
bare, is constantly and unwittingly reproducing the divine likeness.
It will be interesting here to call a witness or so to the extreme
instability of absolute negation.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: is paid to a queen, very secretly, he seemed destined to play an
important role, and Catherine did, in fact, resolve to use him. The
vidame received letters from her for the Prince de Conde, in which she
pointed out to the latter the necessity of an alliance against the
Guises. Informed of this intrigue, the Guises entered the queen's
chamber for the purpose of compelling her to issue an order consigning
the vidame to the Bastille, and Catherine, to save herself, was under
the hard necessity of obeying them. After a captivity of some months,
the vidame died on the very day he left prison, which was shortly
before the conspiracy of Amboise. Such was the conclusion of the first
and only amour of Catherine de' Medici. Protestant historians have
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