CHAPTER IV 

 RELIGION 



LTHOUGH I love my garden in win- 

 ter as well as in summer, from the 

 fact that there is so much less day- 

 light at this season, I am, of course, 

 able to spend less time in it. The longer even- 

 ings indoors give more opportunity for reading 

 than does the summer, when one begrudges 

 every moment spent in the house. A short while 

 ago I found time to read The Soul of a People, 

 by Fielding, and I have now read his sequel to it, 

 entitled The Hearts of Men. 



These two books are the most interesting ones 

 I have read for many a long day and I commend 

 their perusal to reflective persons; but I must 

 make some remarks on them. The latter book 

 opens with a number of definitions of religion 

 by different writers and toward the end the au- 

 thor gives three definitions of his own. Of the 

 others only one seems to me at all satisfactory. 

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