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The Christians Were The First To Make The Existence Of Satan A Dogma Of The Church. What Is The Use In A Pope If There Is No Devil ?

We Live In An Age Of Prejudice, Dissimulation And Paradox, Wherein, Like Dry Leaves Caught In A Whirlpool, Some Of Us Are Tossed Helpless . . . Ever Struggling Between Our Honest Convictions And Fear Of That Cruelest Of Tyrants -- Public Opinion.

Reflect Upon The Defects Of Your Character: Thoroughly Realize Their Evils And The Transient Pleasures They Give You, And Firmly Will That You Shall Try Your Best Not To Yield To Them The Next Time.

We Cut These Numerous Windings In Our Destinies Daily With Our Own Hands, While We Imagine That We Are Pursuing A Track On The Royal High Road Of Respectability And Duty, And Then Complain Of Those Ways Being So Intricate And So Dark. We Stand Bewildered Before The Mystery Of Our Own Making, And The Riddles Of Life That We Will Not Solve, And Then Accuse The Great Sphinx Of Devouring Us.

Even In Our Day, Science Suspects Beyond The Polar Seas, At The Very Circle Of The Arctic Pole, The Existence Of A Sea Which Never Freezes And A Continent Which Is Ever Green.