How to get what you want / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Orison Swett Marden
Date:
[1917]
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Credit: How to get what you want / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which were subversive of religion. They didn’t think man had any right in this proba¬ tionary period of his existence to spend precious time in playing. It never seemed to occur to them that the suppression of the play instinct develops abnormal tendencies which often lead to insanity and degeneracy. 11 actically all of the Puritans suffered from me curse of fear, which darkened all their lives. The majority of them did not know what real happiness meant. T heir faces wore an anxious and sad expression. There was little or no joy in their lives because their natural love of humor and mn was constantly suppressed. Think of the effect on a sensitive mind of the belief that an infant which had not been bap¬ tized, though it had never come to the years of understanding, did not know how to reason, and knew nothing about religion, could be pun¬ ished for ever and ever, and that hell was paved with infants’ skulls! It was such a hor¬ rible doctrine to inject into the child nature that it seems unthinkable such a thing could be possible. For centuries the clergy were constantly
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