The straight
psychic vision teaches us that God is the Creator of all things,--
God is Light and Love,--God desires good from us, and from every
particle of his creation;--but the double or perverted line of sight
offers a different view and declares, 'This life is short and offers
many pleasures. I cannot be sure of God because I have never seen
Him;--the Universe is certainly very majestic, and somewhat
startling to me in its exact mathematical proportions; but I have no
more to do with it than has a grain of sand;--my lot is no more
important than that of the midge in the sunbeam;--I live,--I breed--
I die;--and it matters to no one but myself how I do these three
things, provided I satisfy my nature.' This is the Philosophy of the
Beast, and it is just now very fashionable. It is 'la haute mode'
both in France, and England, Italy, and Spain. Only young America
seem to be struggling for a Faith,--a Christian Faith;--it has
almost, albeit faintly and with a touching indecision, asked for
such a Faith from the Pope,--who has however declared it to be
impossible in these words addressed to Cardinal Gibbons, 'Discussion
of the principles of the Church cannot be tolerated even in the
United States.
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