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The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II

CHAPTER XI
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That's my belief, I have seen it coming for years back.
'The hungry flock looks up and is not fed,' except with chopped hay of the schools.

Go into any church in England, or out of England, and you hear men preaching 'in pattens,' walking gingerly, lest a speck of natural moisture touch a stocking; seeking what's 'sound,' not what's 'true.' Now if only on theology they must not think, there will be soon a close for theologians.

Educated men disbelieve to a degree quite unsuspected.

That, I know of knowledge.
No! Swedenborg does not hold the existence of _devils_ in the ordinary meaning.

Spiritual temptation comes, he says, through disembodied corrupt spirits, out of this or _other earths_.


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