The Captives
The Captives
by Hugh Walpole
TO
ARNOLD BENNETT
WITH DEEP AFFECTION
"I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not in part depend on the personal response which any of us may make to the religious appeal. God Himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity. For my own part I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this ...