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Updated: June 14, 2025
Geoffrey believed, and she believed in Geoffrey. Indeed, is not this the secret of woman's philosophy even, to some extent, of that of such a woman as Beatrice? "Let the faith or unfaith of This, That, or the other Rabbi answer for me," she says it is her last argument. She believes in This, or That, or some other philosopher: that is her creed.
Gautier sang to his antique lyre praise of the flesh and contempt of the soul; Baudelaire on a mediaeval organ chaunted his unbelief in goodness and truth and his hatred of life. But Verlaine advances one step further: hate is to him as commonplace as love, unfaith as vulgar as faith. The world is merely a doll to be attired to-day in a modern ball dress, to-morrow in aureoles and stars.
In their place was only a vast content, featureless and full of soft dusk and warmth. Gone were all the demure resolutions, the memory of faith or unfaith. Nothing was patent to her except that this was the man she loved and he had returned from the dead. Presently she became vaguely aware that he was speaking.
You have faults, no doubt, but the only one I could not pardon would be your saying, "I repent!" The instinct to conceal defeat and pain is so strong in me that I would have my heart cut out rather than own it ached. Yet many women carry all before them by a little judicious whining and rebellion. I never believe in your unfaith.
"They have got it down cold," he must say to himself, and confirm himself in his unfaith by reflecting that it is very cold.
As the cruelties and the narrow bitterness of the world had bred unfaith in her, so did supreme love breed faith, if of an unusual sort, since she learned that without the faith her love must die, and the love she knew to be immortal.
My suggestion is that the religion of the future shall consist of the most pessimistic propositions imaginable; its creed shall be godless and immoral, its thirty-nine articles shall exhaust the possibilities of unfaith and its burden shall be vanitas vanitatum. Man shall be an automaton, and life an hereditary disease, and the world a hospital, and truth a dream, and beauty an optical illusion.
The faith of the one is in the self-sufficiency of the disciplined spirit of mankind; the unfaith of the other is in its glorification of the natural world and in its allegiance to the momentary devices and desires of the separate heart.
The Saracens, seeing this and knowing that they must of necessity surrender or die, fetched the king's daughter, who wept below, on deck and brought her to the ship's prow; then, calling Gerbino, they butchered her before his eyes, what while she called for mercy and succour, and cast her into the sea, saying, 'Take her; we give her to thee, such as we may and such as thine unfaith hath merited.
"But you know that a great many things are allowed now that were once forbidden to the True Disbeliever." "You mean that we may trust in the promises, as they used to be called, and still keep the Unfaith?" "Something like that." Alderling took his pipe out, apparently to give his whole face to the pleasure of teasing his wife.
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