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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: childish mind, I guess, with not a suspicion as yet that it
was Man ruling his Planet or anything of that sort."
The doctor pursed his lips. "None," he delivered judicially.
"If one were able to recall one's childhood--at the age of
about twelve or thirteen--when the artistic impulse so often
goes into abeyance and one begins to think in a troubled,
monstrous way about God and Hell, one might get something
like the mind of this place."
"Thirteen. You put them at that already? . . . These people,
you think, were religious?"
"Intensely. In that personal way that gives death a nightmare
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