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to convince her; and fearing that she might tell her mother
what I had been saying, and that I might lose the hold upon
her affections which I was beginning to feel pretty sure that
I was obtaining, I began to let her have her own way, and to
convince me; neither till after we were safely married did I
show the cloven hoof again.
Nevertheless, her remarks have haunted me, and I have
since met with many very godly people who have had a great
knowledge of divinity, but no sense of the divine: and again,
I have seen a radiance upon the face of those who were wor-
shipping the divine either in art or nature—in picture or
statue—in field or cloud or sea—in man, woman, or child—
which I have never seen kindled by any talking about the
nature and attributes of God. Mention but the word divin-
ity, and our sense of the divine is clouded.

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