![]() ![]() These things were as the bones of the Universe-facts beyond doubting-if they were not true, nothing anywhere was anything but a dream. Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson Dodd, Mead, 1908 - 352 pages 3 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified The novel's. ![]() He might go mad, but Jesus Christ was Incarnate Deity, proving Himself so by death and Resurrection, and John his Vicar. There was the Catholic Faith, more certain to him than the existence of himself: it was true and alive. This … and this … and this … all made the one and perfect whole. Christianity, on the other hand, at least included and accounted for these, even if it did not explain them. ![]() OBriens Catholic apocalyptic series, Children of the Last Days follows a very similar theme as well. Robert Hugh Benson describes a future ruled by the Antichrist who becomes Lord of the World, a nightmare where creeping secularism and Godless humanism. It is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias. Humanity-Religion could only be true if at least half of man's nature, aspirations and sorrows were ignored. Lord of the World is a 1907 apocalyptic novel by Robert Hugh Benson. ![]() “Huge principles, once bewildering and even repellent, were again luminously self-evident he saw, for example, that while Humanity-Religion endeavoured to abolish suffering the Divine Religion embraced it, so that the blind pangs even of beasts were within the Father's Will and Scheme or that while from one angle one colour only of the web of life was visible-material, or intellectual, or artistic-from another the Supernatural was as eminently obvious. ![]()
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