Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — Hugo’s Faith. [ARTICLE]

Hugo’s Faith.

Arsene Houssaye reproduces in L'Artiste a profession of faith recently made by Victor Hugo after a dinner at his house. “What is death but eternal life?” said the poet. “I call to witness these millions of worlds, what is there ? Infinity, always infinity. If I pronounce the name of God I raise a smile on the faces of some of you who do not believe in God? Why do they not .behove in God ? Because they believe in the living forces of nature. But what is nature ? Without God it is a grain of sand. What is the earth? A cradlo find a grave. But just as the cnadle has its beginning, the tomb has its rays of light; it is a door closed upon the earth but opened upon worlds of which we catch a glimpse. Let us live on the visible, Messieurs lea savants, let us also live on the invisible. Science will makd earthly discoveries, but it will always be wrong if it is not dominoed by a radiant ideal. ,