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Anna Karenina

He did not, as he had done at other times, recall the
whole train of thought—that he did not need. He fell
back at once into the feeling which had guided him,
which was connected with those thoughts, and he found

that feeling in his soul even stronger and more definite
than before. He did not, as he had had to do with
previous attempts to find comforting arguments, need to
revive a whole chain of thought to find the feeling. Now,
on the contrary, the feeling of joy and peace was keener
than ever, and thought could not keep pace with feeling.
He walked across the terrace and looked at two stars
that had come out in the darkening sky, and suddenly he
remembered. ‘Yes, looking at the sky, I thought that the
dome that I see is not a deception, and then I thought
something, I shirked facing something,’ he mused. ‘But
whatever it was, there can be no disproving it! I have but
to think, and all will come clear!’
Just as he was going into the nursery he remembered
what it was he had shirked facing. It was that if the chief
proof of the Divinity was His revelation of what is right,
how is it this revelation is confined to the Christian
church alone? What relation to this revelation have the
beliefs of the Buddhists, Mohammedans, who preached
and did good too?

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