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'No!' Baruch thought she referred to her child, and he was silent

'You are a philosopher,' said Madge, after a pause 'Have you never

discovered anything which will enable us to submit to be useless?'

'That is to say, have I discovered a religion? for the core of

religion is the relationship of the individual to the whole, the

faith that the poorest and th of all religions'

'Well, go on; what do you believe?'

'I can only say it like a creed; I have no demonstration, at least

none such as I would venture to put into words Perhaps the highest

of all truths is incapable of demonstration and can only be stated

Perhaps, also, the statement, at least to some of us, is a sufficient

de is not a

reason for its non-existence If the infinite is a conclusion which

is forced upon me, the fact that I cannot picture it does not

disprove it I believe, also, in thought and the soul, and it is

nothing toto

body That being so, the difficulties which arise from the perpetual

and unconscious confusion of the qualities of thought and soul with

those of body disappear Our iination represents to itself souls