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Essays On Paul Bourget

Essays On Paul Bourget

Twain, Mark

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Series: Huckleberry Finn Tales

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ISBN10: 1503298167
ISBN13: 9781503298163
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 20 2014
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Bourget, who had abandoned Catholicism in 1867, began a gradual return to it in 1889, fully converting only in 1901. In 1893, in an interview he gave in America, he spoke about his changed views: For many years I, like most young men in modern cities, was content to drift along in agnosticism, but I was brought to my senses at last by the growing realization that...the life of a man who simply said 'I don't know, and not knowing I do the thing that pleases me, ' was not only empty in itself and full of disappointment and suffering, but was a positive influence for evil upon the lives of others. On the other hand, those men and women who follow the teachings of the church are in a great measure protected from the moral disasters which...almost invariably follow when men and women allow themselves to be guided and swayed by their senses, passions and weaknesses.

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