e no more real
substance than have shadows. _We, as mortals, know but the shadowy,
phenomenal existence._ _We do not know reality._ _Therefore, our
knowledge is not real knowledge, but supposition._

"Now," he went on hastily, for he saw an expression of protest on
Reverend Moore's face, "we are more or less familiar with a phenomenal
existence, with appearances, with effects; and our knowledge of these
is entirely mental. We see all things as thought. These thoughts, such
as feeling, seeing, hearing, and so on, we ignorantly attribute to the
five physical senses. This is what Ruskin calls the 'pathetic
fallacy.' And because we do so, we find ourselves absolutely dependent
upon these senses--in belief. Moreover, quoting Spencer again, only
the absolutely real is the absolutely persistent, or enduring. Truth,
for example. The truth of the multiplication table will endure
eternally. It is real. But is it any whit material?"

"No," admitted Miss Wall, speaking for the others.

"And, as regards material objects which we seem to see and touch,"
went on Hitt, "we appear to see solidity and hardness, and we conceive
as real objects what are only the mental signs or indications of
objects. Remember, matter does not and can not get into the mind. Only
thoughts and ideas enter our mentalities. We see our _thoughts_ of
hardness, solidity, and so on; and these thoughts point to something
that is real. That _something_ is--what? I repeat: _the ideas of the
infinite creative Mind_. The thoughts of size, shape, hardness, and so
on, which we group together and call material chairs, trees,
mountains, and other objects, are but 'relative realities,' pointing
to the absolute reality, infinite mind and its eternal ideas and
thoughts."

He paused again for comments. But all seemed absorbed in his
statements. Then he resumed:

"Our concept of matter, which is now proven to be but a mental
concept, built up out of false thought, points to _mind_ as the real
substance. Our concept of measurable space and distance is the direct
opposite of the great truth that infinite mind is ever-present. Our
concept of time is the opposite of infinity. It is but human
limitation. Age is the opposite of eternity--and the old-age thought
brings extinction. So, _to every reality there is the corresponding
unreality_. The opposite of good is evil. If the infinite creative
mind is good--and we saw that by very necessity it _must_ be so--then
evil becomes a