Place and Power (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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He proved that God is but a kind
Of fundamental Cause;
Nor knew it takes a perfect Mind
To fashion perfect laws.

- Love's Argument.

"It is wonderful what a hold superstition has obtained over the minds of English people," exclaimed Mr. Clayton; "upon my soul it is! You'd have thought they'd have had enough of it by this time, and be waking up to the realities of life. But, bless me, not a bit of it! They're as keen over their Christmases and Easters and the rest as they were in the dark ages; and that's what fairly beats me."

"I wonder if they really do believe it all?" said Mr. Clayton's son and heir, with a superior indifference indicative of the sunny side of thirty.

"Believe it all? Of course they do - more fools they! And it hampers them above a bit. By Jove, how it does hamper them! And yet they cling to it like limpets to a rock."

"I suppose they think they'll get something out of it some time, or they'd hardly go on with it. People don't do anything for nothing."

This graceful concession came from the younger Clayton.

But his father took no such lenient view.

"Not they!

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