| Essays On Paul Bourget Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1503298167 ISBN-13: 9781503298163 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.82 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Reference |
| Dewey: 814 |
| Physical Information: 0.07" H x 6" W x 9" (0.14 lbs) 36 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Bourget, who had abandoned Catholicism in 1867, began a gradual return to it in 1889, fully converting only in 1901. In 1893, in an interview he gave in America, he spoke about his changed views: "For many years I, like most young men in modern cities, was content to drift along in agnosticism, but I was brought to my senses at last by the growing realization that...the life of a man who simply said 'I don't know, and not knowing I do the thing that pleases me, ' was not only empty in itself and full of disappointment and suffering, but was a positive influence for evil upon the lives of others." On the other hand, "those men and women who follow the teachings of the church are in a great measure protected from the moral disasters which...almost invariably follow when men and women allow themselves to be guided and swayed by their senses, passions and weaknesses |
