22 All the Articles of the Darwin Faith. 



there is, it is quite beneath me to be guided by it, and that 

 one premiss, or at all events a number of single premisses 

 strung together so as to give a great appearance of argu- 

 ment to those who know no better, is amply sufficient to 

 prove any conclusion. 



I believe that the Christian is the happiest of men, 

 because he evidently has a hope for another world in 

 addition to the peaceful happiness he enjoys here. 



I believe that an Infidel or Unbeliever is " of all men 

 most miserable"; nevertheless I have done all I could to 

 make others as wretched as I am myself, and have given, 

 and can give them, nothing in return but a dreary blank. 

 If you ask me about the future, there, I confess, I am in 

 the dark ; all I can say is that I believe that you and I 

 will " melt into the infinite azure of the past," (Tyndall) , 

 (whatever that may mean). I repeat that I believe 

 that Christian Believers have a peace of mind which I 

 own I have not myself. They have " a good hope " for 

 the future, which I must admit I have not myself, " having 

 no hope, and without GOD in the world." I do my 

 little best, or worst, to shake their faith and rob them of 

 their peace of mind, but I have nothing better, because I 

 Lave nothing at all to give them in the place of it. 



