the essence of a religious experience is not to be conveyed by any arguments, nor misdemeanours, nor crimes, nor atheist doctrines. There’s something short of the mark there always, and will continue to be so till the end of time. There’s something there that will for ever confound the atheists, and will for ever continue to be short of the mark. But the main thing is that it all manifests itself most clearly and most directly in the Russian heart, and that is the sum total of all my observations! It’s one of my primary convictions, formed on this our Russian soil. There remains much to be
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