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The great choice before the narrator is this: should I cause pain and suffering to all I love by following my conscience, or should I compromise my conscience in a life of hypocrisy? - Summary by Expatriate]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72388034</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:41:10 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72388034/outcast_william_winwood_reade.mp3" length="102011335" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>(William) Winwood Reade</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. 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He is far more overwhelmed by the concept of the new God he would have to believe in; instead of the benevolent God who had created the mystical Nature of Romanticism, he would have to accept a God who had created a ruthless evolutionary Nature in which murder and death are the ruling principles. The great choice before the narrator is this: should I cause pain and suffering to all I love by following my conscience, or should I compromise my conscience in a life of hypocrisy? - Summary by Expatriate]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>12752</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>conscience,created,crises,heady,interestingly,literary,outcast,overwhelmed,reade,winwood</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/af14a2a778084997bd7ed3f6f7b42822.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
