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Rh belief and worship, and with reasons why I was able to cling with heart and soul to the Church of England.

My readers, if I meet with any, must bear in mind as they read that they are being conducted out of one stage of thought and feeling into another, out of instinctive antipathies into rational convictions. And if it be thought that I have spoken with undue asperity on what at the time gave me the cold shivers, and made me recoil, it is because I actually did so recoil from what repelled my sense of the beautiful, the holy and the reverent.

January 28, 1922.