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"'Why, I'll tell you what I say, says I. 'I say let's settle this thing right here now. I don't see any use of wasting any more time. I took a nickel-plated .38 out of my pocket and clicked the cylinder around a few times. "'You undevout, sinful, insidious hog, says I to Murkison, 'get out that two thousand and lay it on the table.
When I was a little girl I used to write out a line of Young's as a copy in my writing-book, "An undevout astronomer is mad"; but I do not now feel quite so sure that the contemplation of all the multitude of remote worlds does not tend to weaken the idea of a personal Deity.
But it was a great impulse to thought, a great advance in the attitude of our thinking community, when the profoundly devout religious free-thinker took the ground of the undevout and irreligious free-thinker, and calmly asserted and peaceably established the right and the duty of the individual to weigh the universe, its laws and its legends, in his own balance, without fear of authority, or names, or institutions.
Still more than the undevout astronomer, the undevout child under such influences is abnormal. In these directions the mind of the child is as open and plastic as that of the ancient prophet to the promptings of the inspiring Spirit.
Pennypoker, who was supposed to be temporarily filling his mother's place. At the petition for daily bread, Vic had stopped short. "Go on," said Mrs. Pennypoker, in slow, measured tones. Victor opened his eyes and glared at her with undevout opposition. "Don't want bread," he said firmly. "Vic likes biskies." "It means the same thing, Victor," answered Mrs. Pennypoker, in her hard voice.
If we could but remember that, there would be no fear of our being ungodly, irreligious, undevout.
The experience of the undevout sensualist is but too faithful a type of that of all undevout livers, in the failure of delights to delight and of acquisitions to enrich, and in the bondage, often to nothing more worthy to be obeyed than mere habit, and in the hopeless incapacity to shake off the adamantine chains which they have themselves rivetted on their limbs.
I had felt a bit lonely before, but now somewhere within the four corners of the island the best companion God ever made was writing nonsense with his tongue in his old cheek. There was an institution in Biggleswick which deserves mention. On the south of the common, near the station, stood a red-brick building called the Moot Hall, which was a kind of church for the very undevout population.
Those who admitted the possibility of other forms and creeds were either Atheists or, what was deemed worse than Atheists, Papists, because Papists were assumed to be traitors also, and desirous of selling the country to Spain. An undevout man in that land and at that epoch was an almost unknown phenomenon. Religion was as much a recognized necessity of existence as food or drink.
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