admit that you are not concerned with
_things_, but with your comprehension of things."

"H'm, well--yes."

"And so, after all, you deal only with mental things--and everything
is mental to you."

"But--whence the human mind? Did God create it?" continued Doctor
Siler. "Did He, Mr. Moore?"

"The Bible states clearly that He created _all_ things," returned that
gentleman a little stiffly.

"My friends," resumed Hitt very earnestly, "we are on the eve of a
tremendous enlightenment, I believe. And for that we owe much to the
so-called 'theory of suppositional opposites.' We have settled to our
satisfaction that, although mankind believe themselves to be dependent
upon air, food, and water for existence, nevertheless they are really
dependent upon something vastly finer, which is back of those things.
That 'something' we call God, for it is good. Matthew Arnold said that
the only thing that can be verified about God is that He is 'the
eternal power that makes for righteousness.' Very well, we are almost
willing to accept that alone--for that carries infinite implications.
It makes God an eternal, spiritual power, omnipotent as an influence
for good. It makes Him the infinite patron, so to speak, of
right-thinking. And we know that thought is creative. So it makes Him
the sole creative force.

"But," he continued, "force, or power, is not material. God by very
necessity is mind, including all intelligence. And His operations are
conducted according to the spiritual law of evolution. Oh, yes,
evolution is not a theory, it is a fact. God, infinite mind, evolves,
uncovers, reveals, unfolds, His numberless eternal ideas. These
reflect and manifest Him. The greatest of these is the one that
includes all others and expresses and reflects Him perfectly. That we
call man. That is the man who was 'made'--revealed, manifested--in
His image and likeness. There is no other image and likeness of God.
Moreover, God has always existed, and always will. So His ideas,
including real man, have had no beginning. They were not created, as
we regard creation, but have been unfolded.

"All well and good, so far. But now we come to the peculiar part,
namely, the fact that _reality seems always to have its shadow in
unreality_. Every positive seems to have a negative. The magnet has
its opposite poles, one positive, the other negative. Jesus had his
Nero. Truth has its opposing falsities. At the lowest ebb of the
world's morals appeared t