ect of
radiation-pressure, the latter being the pressure supposed to be
exerted by all material bodies upon one another. The third law of
motion illustrates this so-called law, for it states that action
and reaction are equal and opposite. There can be no positive action
without a resultant negative one. The truth has its lie. The divine
mind, God, has His opposite in the communal human, or mortal, mind.
The latter is manifested by the so-called minds which we call mankind.
And from these so-called minds issue matter and material forms and
bodies, with their so-called material laws.

"Yes, the material universe is running down. Stupendous fact! The
entire human concept is running down. Matter, the human mental
concept, is not eternally permanent. Neither, therefore, are its
concomitants, sin and discord. Matter disintegrates and passes
away--out of human consciousness. The whole material universe--the
so-called mortal-mind concept--is hastening to its death!"

"But as yet I think you have not given Mr. Haynerd the practical
application which he asks," suggested Father Waite, as Hitt paused
after his long exposition.

"I am now ready for that," replied Hitt. "We have said that the
material is the relative. So all human knowledge is relative. But,
that being so, we can go a step further and add that human error is
likewise relative. And now--startling fact!--_it is absolutely
impossible to really know error_!"

"Why--!" burst from the incredulous Miss Wall.

"Well?" said Hitt, turning to her. "Can you know that two plus two
equals seven?"

"N--no."

"Let me make this statement of truth: nothing can be known definitely
except as it is explained by the principle which governs it. Now what
principle governs an error, whether that error be in music,
mathematics, or life conduct?"

There was no reply to the question.

"Very well," continued Hitt. "Evil can not be really known. And that
is why God--infinite Mind--can not behold evil. And now, friends, I
have come to the conclusion of a long series of deductions. If
infinite mind is the cause and creator, that is, the revealer, of all
that really exists, its suppositional opposite, its negative, must
likewise simulate a creation, or revelation, or unfolding, for this
opposite must of very necessity pose as a creative principle. It must
simulate all the powers and attributes of the infinite creative mind.
If the creative mind gave rise to a spiritual universe and spi