And Here I Must Beg My Reader To Bear In Mind That
In The Days Of My Youth We Had Not Yet Fallen Into The Indifference
And Scepticism Which Now Infects The Entire Christian World.
In those
days people still believed; and here in England, in the very centre
and mind of the world, many thousands of miles from my rude
wilderness, the champions of the Church were in deadly conflict with
the Evolutionists.
I knew nothing about all that: I had no modern
books - those we had were mostly about a hundred years old. My fight up
to this period was all on the old lines, and on this account I have
related it as briefly as possible; but it had to be told, since it
comes into the story of the development of my mind at that period. I
have no doubt that my sufferings through these religious experiences
were far greater than in the majority of cases, and this for the
special reason which I have already intimated.
CHAPTER XXIV
LOSS AND GAIN
The soul's loneliness - My mother and her death-A mother's love for her
son - Her character-Anecdotes-A mystery and a revelation - The autumnal
migration of birds - Moonlight vigils - My absent brother's return - He
introduces me to Darwin's works - A new philosophy of life - Conclusion.
The mournful truth that a man - every man-must die alone, had been
thrust sharply into my mind and kept there by the frequent violent
attacks of my malady I suffered at that time, every one of which
threatened to be the last.
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