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I have been strongly tempted to omit altogether the next book which I wrote; but, as this is to be a sincere narrative of my life and its work, I must pierce the veil of anonymity and own up to "An Agnostic's Progress."
When they exchanged good-night, Peak fancied that the pressure of Buckland's hand was less fervent than at their meeting, but his manner no longer seemed to indicate distrust. Probably the agnostic's mood was one of half-tolerant disdain. Godwin turned the key in his bedroom door, and strayed aimlessly about.
The doctrine of innate human depravity is one of the most paralysing dogmas that human fear invented or priestcraft encouraged. I did not think of publishing "An Agnostic's Progress" at first. I wrote it to relieve my own mind.
"But did you not just say that this agnostic's views would forever prevent his election to public office, here in this great free country, in the year 1877 and onward?" "We cannot have a free country and not allow a man to vote against another, even if his vote were influenced by the cut of a candidate's trousers."
I read the manuscript of "An Agnostic's Progress" to Mr. and Mrs. Barr Smith, and they thought so well of it that they offered to take it to England on one of their many visits to the old country, where they had no doubt it would find a publisher. Trubner's reader reported most favourably of the book, and we thought there was an immediate prospect of its publication; but Mr.
Another morning I had told H. D. that I had been reading an article in The Nineteenth Century and After, I think, entitled "An Agnostic's Progress," and asked if he had sensed it through me at all. H. D. Yes. We will begin with that this morning. I am very glad you read it, for it is curiously like my own experiences in the same line.
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