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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." I begin with a Creative Cause that is sufficient for anything that can come thereafter. Having answered the atheist's first question, it is now my turn, and I ask my first question of the atheist: "Where do you begin?" And then his trouble begins. Did you ever hear an atheist explain creation?
And Ernest Maltravers one night softly stole to his room and opened the New Testament, and read its heavenly moralities with purged eyes; and when he had done, he fell upon his knees, and prayed the Almighty to pardon the ungrateful heart that, worse than the Atheist's, had confessed His existence, but denied His goodness. His sleep was sweet and his dreams were cheerful.
Up to 1887 I find myself writing on the same lines: "No man can rationally affirm 'There is no God, until the word 'God' has for him a definite meaning, and until everything that exists is known to him, and known with what Leibnitz calls 'perfect knowledge. The Atheist's denial of the Gods begins only when these Gods are defined or described.
In tragic power, Webster approaches nearest to Shakespeare. He loves such gloomy metaphors as the following: "You speak as if a man Should know what fowl is coffined in a baked meat Afore you cut it open." Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy is in Webster's vein, but far inferior to The Duchess of Malfi. Ford's The Broken Heart is a strong, but unpleasant, tragedy.
He had had a nurse for months, according to Mrs. Graves. And there would have been the airing that follows long illness and death, the opened windows, the packing up or giving away of clothing, the pauses and silences, the sense of strangeness and quiet, the lowered voices. And there would have been, too, that remorseless packing for destruction of the dead atheist's books.
But, putting aside all dependence upon the theory of a coming rectification of such wrongs as these, the atheist's argument was shallow enough. It would have been easy to show that a world such as he imagines is unthinkable directly we are serious with our conception of it.
But now that poor Tom's gone and they know that me and the children's got no one to look to but Father, they do THIS. Although at the mention of her dead son's name old Mrs Linden was evidently distressed, she was still mindful of the Atheist's presence, and hastened to rebuke her daughter-in-law. 'You shouldn't say we've got no one to look to, Mary, she said.
"I am not at all surprized at hearing from your worthy nephew a fresh instance of the villany of Mr Square the atheist's young pupil. I shall not wonder at any murders he may commit; and I heartily pray that your own blood may not seal up his final commitment to the place of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
In the first place, I think that the theist's antecedent objection to a scientific mode of reasoning on the score of its symbolism, may be regarded as fairly balanced by the atheist's antecedent objection to a metaphysical mode of reasoning on the score of its postulating an unknowable cause.
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