Subjects

Extracts from Literature

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Pure Selfishness

The brilliant but dangerously obsessive Dr Griffin decides that the end justifies the means.

458

Passover to Pentecost

St Bede explains how the Exodus and the Ten Commandments are related to Easter and Whitsuntide.

459

One False Step

Louisa Musgrove thought she had hit on a sure method of winning Captain Wentworth’s affections.

460

The Living Past

High above the roof of the Amazonian rainforest, Professor Challenger sees something that eerily reminds him of home.

461

Lost Innocence

In the fourth century, Britain’s Christians acquired a taste for watering down the mystery of their message.

462

Beginner’s Luck

As proof that ‘Providence protects children and idiots’, Mark Twain recalls his first taste of ten-pin bowling.