“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.”
Leslie Stephen“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.”
Leslie Stephen“God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.”
Leslie Stephen, An Agnostic's Apology and Other Essays“The memories of walks...are hitched on to particular times and places”
they spontaneously form a kind of calendar or connecting thread upon which other memories may be strung...The author is but the accidental appendage of the tramp.