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  ...which appears to me essentially founded upon the _soul_. For this reason Priestley's Christian Materialism always struck me as deadly. Believe the resurrection of the _body_, if you will, but _not without_ a _soul_. The deuce is in it, if after having had a soul, (as surely the _mind_, or whatever you call it, _is,_) in this world, we must part with it in the _next_, even for an immortal materiality! I own my partiality for _spirit_.
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I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...   s if there was some association between an internal approach to greater light and purity and the kindler of this dark lantern of our external existence.
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"The night is also a religious concern, and even more so when I viewed the moon and stars through Herschell's telescope, and saw that they were worlds.
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"If, according to some speculations, you could prove the world many thousand years older than...   Byron, Lord

Excerpt from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With his Letters and Journals · This quote is tagged Religion · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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