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How Anyone Can Remain A Catholic - I Mean Who Has Ever Been Aroused To Think, And Is Not Biased By The Partialities Of Childish Years - After Seeing Catholicism Here In Italy I Cannot Conceive.

There Are Noble Books But One Wants The Breath Of Life Sometimes. And I See No Divine Person. I Myself Am More Divine Than Any I See I Think That Is Enough To Say About Them.

Our Desires, Once Realized, Haunt Us Again Less Readily.

Nature Provides Exceptions To Every Rule.

Certainly I Do Not Wish That Instead Of These Masters I Had Read Baby Books, Written Down To Children, And With Such Ignorant Dullness That They Blunt The Sense And Corrupt The Tastes Of The Still Plastic Human Being. But I Do Wish That I Had Read No Books At All Till Later - That I Had Lived With Toys, And Played In The Open Air. Children Should Not Cull The Fruits Of Reflection And Observation Early, But Expand In The Sun, And Let Thoughts Come To Them. They Should Not Through Books Antedate Their Actual Experiences.