The Genius of Christianity: Or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion (Classic Reprint)

By François-René de Chateaubriand

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IN 1798, while the author of this work was residing in London, exiled from France by the horrors of the Revolution, and gaining a subsistence by the produc tions of his pen, which were tinctured with the skep ticism and infidelity of the times, he was informed of the death of his venerable mother, whose last days had been embittered by the recollection of his errors, and who had left him. In her dying moments, a solemn admonition to retrace his steps. The thought of having saddened the old age of that tender and religious parent who had borne him in her womb, overwhelmed him with confusion; the tears gushed from his eyes, and the Christian sentiments in which he had been educated returned under the impulses of a generous and affectionate heart: I wept and I believed. But the trouble which harassed his mind did not entirely vanish, until he had formed the plan of redeeming his first publications by the consecration of his splendid abilities to the honor of religion. Such was the origin of the Genius of Christianity, in the composition of which he labored with all the ardor of a son who was erect ing a mausoleum to his.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1330733894
• ISBN13: 9781330733899
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Length: 766 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"