Young men have flung away all hope of salvation in order that they might be thought to be men of culture; they have abjured faith in order to be esteemed “free-thinkers” by those whose opinions were not worth a pin’s head. I charge you, dear friend, if you are beginning at all to be a slave of other people, break these wretched and degrading bonds. That which a man does when he thinks that he is entirely by himself is the best revelation of the man. You are not half as happy as you might be, because
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