Excerpt from The Religion of Nature
In this little book my object is not to preach, but to prove on logical and scientific grounds, and in language which all can understand, that man has inherited the spirit of God and will return to God.
In my earliest childhood I was entrusted, during the absence of my parents in India, to the care of a Scotch clergyman of the severest school. His sermons and his moral exhortations were, so far as my memory serves, all of the gloomiest and most terrifying kind. The end of the world and the commencement of unending torment were always in my mind - at the age of five - as probable occurrences of every day.
My very earliest recollection of nature and wild life is bound up with this haunting dread. I was in the garden one day when a wild duck flew by. I had never seen one before; and, with its neck stretched out in front and no tail to speak of behind, I mistook one end of the bird for the other, and thought it was flying tail-first.
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