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Updated: May 29, 2025
This experience is punctuated by periods during which the earth shoots up about him like corn popping in a pan, and he experiences the insanest fear, if he's made that way, or the most satisfying kind of joy. About once a year something happens which, when it's over, he scarcely believes has happened: he's told that he can run away to England and pretend that there isn't any war on for ten days.
That is to say, the only explanation of a godless life, unless the man is an idiot, is that there lie beneath it, as formative principles and unspoken assumptions, guiding and shaping it, one or both of these two thoughts: either 'There is no God, or 'He does not care what I do, and I am safe to go on for evermore in the present fashion. It might seem as if a man with the facts of human life before him, could not, even in the insanest arrogance, say, 'I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity. But we have an awful power and the fact that we exercise, and choose to exercise, it is one of the strange riddles of our enigmatical existence and characters of ignoring unwelcome facts, and going cheerily on as though we had annihilated them, because we do not reflect upon them.
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