Chapter 22
The whole place wreaks of that deadly odour. The very
gardener, though he has only been there five years, is beginning to acquire it.
Even guests, after a weekend visit, carry some of the smell away with them. The
dog and the cat are tainted with it.
Chapter 23
For a long time it will be impossible to remove spirituality
from his life. Very well then; we must corrupt it.
Chapter 24
He must be made to feel (he’d better not put it into words) ‘how
different we Christians are’; and by ‘we Christians’ he must really, but
unknowingly, mean ‘my set’; and by ‘my set’ he must mean not ‘The people who,
in their charity and humility, have accepted me’, but ‘The people with whom I
associate by right’.
Chapter 25
The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable
passions we have produced in the human heart---an endless source of heresies in
religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in
friendship
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