Excerpt from Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People And Whenever I have thus questioned myself, I have thus answered myself: I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, What would the people be to me ... Read more

  Excerpt from Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People And Whenever I have thus questioned myself, I have thus answered myself: I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, What would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, Which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, 'so much the Worse for the losers the World is a lottery. Woe to the I cannot, indeed, say this Without shame and cruelty, -for, I repeat it, I believe in God. Less