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Title: Where No Fear Was
A Book About Fear

Author: Arthur Christopher Benson

Posting Date: August 18, 2009 [EBook #4611]
Release Date: November, 2003
First Posted: February 19, 2002

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WHERE NO FEAR WAS

A BOOK ABOUT FEAR

By

ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON

1914

CONTENTS

I. THE SHADOW
II. SHAPES OF FEAR
III. THE DARKEST DOUBT
IV. VULNERABILITY
V. THE USE OF FEAR
VI. FEARS OF CHILDHOOD
VII. FEARS OF BOYHOOD
VIII. FEARS OF YOUTH
IX. FEARS OF MIDDLE AGE
X. FEARS OF AGE
XI. DR. JOHNSON
XII. TENNYSON, RUSKIN, CARLYLE
XIII. CHARLOTTE BRONTE
XIV. JOHN STERLING
XV. INSTINCTIVE FEAR
XVI. FEAR OF LIFE
XVII. SIMPLICITY
XVIII. AFFECTION
XIX. SIN
XX. SERENITY

"Thus they went on till they came to about the middle of the Valley,
and then Christiana said, 'Methinks I see something yonder on the road
before us, a thing of such a shape such as I have not seen.' Then said
Joseph, 'Mother, what is it?' 'An ugly thing, Child, an ugly thing,'
said she. 'But, Mother, what is it like?' said he. ''Tis like I cannot
tell what,' said she. And now it was but a little way off. Then said
she, 'It is nigh.'"

"Pilgrim's Progress," Part II.

Where No Fear Was

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