THE LAST DAYS OF A POSITIVIST.

Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 12, 1 September 1884, Page 8

THE LAST DAYS OF A POSITIVIST.

My last days are cheered by the sense of how much better my later years have been than the earlier, or than in the earlier I ever could have anticipated. Some of the terrible faults of my character which religion failed to ameliorate, and others which superstition bred in me, have given way, more or less, since I attained a truer point of view; and the relief from all burdens, the uprisings of new satisfactions, and the opening of new clearness, the fresh air of Nature—short, after imprisonment in the ghost-peopled cavern of superstition, have been as favorable to my moral nature as to intellectual progress and general enjoyment.—Harriet Martineau's " Autobiography."