Where No Fear Was : A Book about Fear

By Benson, Arthur Christopher

Book Id: WPLBN0000626635
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Where No Fear Was : A Book about Fear
Author:	Benson, Arthur Christopher
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Benson, A. C. (n.d.). Where No Fear Was : A Book about Fear. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Excerpt: I. THE SHADOW There surely may come a time for each of us, if we have lived with any animation or interest, if we have had any constant or even fitful desire to penetrate and grasp the significance of the strange adventure of life, a time, I say, when we may look back a little, not sentimentally or with any hope of making out an impressive case for ourselves, and interrogate the memory as to what have been the most real, vivid, and intense things that have befallen us by the way. We may try to separate the momentous from the trivial, and the important from the unimportant; to discern where and how and when we might have acted differently; to see and to say what has really mattered, what has made a deep mark on our spirit; what has hampered or wounded or maimed us. Because one of the strangest things about life seems to be our incapacity to decide beforehand, or even at the time, where the real and fruitful joys, and where the dark dangers and distresses lie.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear, 1 -- Arthur Christopher Benson, 1 -- I. THE SHADOW, 1 -- II. SHAPES OF FEAR, 3 -- III. THE DARKEST DOUBT, 4 -- IV. VULNERABILITY, 5 -- V. THE USE OF FEAR, 8 -- VI. FEARS OF CHILDHOOD, 10 -- VII. FEARS OF BOYHOOD, 13 -- VIII. FEARS OF YOUTH, 16 -- IX. FEARS OF MIDDLE AGE, 18 -- X. FEARS OF AGE, 20 -- XI. DR. JOHNSON, 24 -- XII. TENNYSON, RUSKIN, CARLYLE, 27 -- XIII. CHARLOTTE BRONTE, 32 -- XIV. JOHN STERLING, 35 -- XV. INSTINCTIVE FEAR, 37 -- XVI. FEAR OF LIFE, 41 -- XVII. SIMPLICITY, 45 -- XVIII. AFFECTION, 47 -- XIX. SIN, 49 -- XX. SERENITY, 51