The book The Ripening Experience of Life And Other Essays was written by author William Valentine Kelley Here you can read free online of The Ripening Experience of Life And Other Essays book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Ripening Experience of Life And Other Essays a good or bad book?
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I^ot a few men who think themselves shrewd and sensible, who thoroughly and devoutly believe in real estate and stocks and bonds and bank accounts, feel when reli- gion is broached as Faust did when he said, Now we're in the sphere, I deem. Of enchantment and of dream. Astute and knowing persons — "men of affairs, " they are called — practical politicians, diplomats and states- men, financiers and dealers, who claim to know what sort of a world this is and what are the conditions of success, la...wyers and judges familiar with the obverse and sinister side of human affairs, police and de- DREAMS THAT COME TRUE 279 tectives who wade about in the slimy sediment of depravity that settles at the bottom of society — many of these hard-headed, unimaginative, sagacious men of the world looking from their standpoint regard Christianity's optimistic scheme as impracticable, its success highly improbable, and its advocates amiable theorists and enthusiasts, a company of harmless though rather troublesome innocents abroad.
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