Excerpt from Perversion, or the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale for the Times And hourly intercourse with those who openly rejected the creed in which she had been educated, could not but diminish in Clara's mind the traditional reverence with which she had regarded it. She became familiarised with the supposition of its possible falsehood. She could not suppose herself intellectually superior to many of those whom she heard denying its most fundamental articles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.