“ Why, you can have the religion of loving-kindness and purity at least, if you can’t have—what do you call it—dogma. ”
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891). copy citation
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
|---|---|
| Source | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| Topic | purity kindness |
| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/110/110-h/110-h.htm |
Context
“As for what you said last time, on the strength of your wonderful husband’s intelligence—whose name you have never told me—about having what they call an ethical system without any dogma, I don’t see my way to that at all. ” Why, you can have the religion of loving-kindness and purity at least, if you can’t have—what do you call it—dogma. “ O no! I’m a different sort of fellow from that! If there’s nobody to say, ‘Do this, and it will be a good thing for you after you are dead; do that, and if will be a bad thing for you,’ I can’t warm up.”
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