Vegetable Life. 2. Animal Life. 3. Mental Life. 4. Spiritual Life.
At the suggestion of Miss Church-Member they entered, and could readily
see that the attendants and lecturers of this hall were also of a very
high class. One of the speakers elaborated on the theory that life is
the result of spontaneous generation.
Another, in speaking on spiritual life, made special reference to the
fact that Jesus Christ claimed to be the "Life," and then proceeded
to refute this claim by a series of arguments which were altogether
too philosophical to be understood by the two companions.
Finding no pleasure in this metaphysical atmosphere, Mr. World conducted
his companion to the adjoining hall devoted to the "Literature of
Fiction."
Here they spent a season delightfully, perusing works of fiction and
listening to addresses, all of which advocated the views of Satan.
I heard one of the lecturers, in a discussion on "The License of Pure
Fiction" make these dangerous remarks: "The highest fiction of the
world is that in which human life is pictured in ideal colors, even
though it be done at the expense of truth.
"There can be no harm if the reader should gain a false view of life.
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