ABSTRACT
Thought, feeling, reflection, experience, agree that in no other way, without some contradiction, can well-being exist. Marriage is supposed to exercise a magical effect upon the judgment – for a married woman of eighteen has more independence, and is thought better able to act for herself than a single one of thirty-six. The thoughts of children are seldom directed upon the question before them, but upon questioning the judgment of their parents; and this is not entirely their own fault. There is always something repulsive in the thought of God's existence as solitary enjoyment, while his children are suffering all this – as if there were something selfish in it. Man has a soul to unfold, a part to play in God's great world. The indifferentist is called the religious man, and the religious man is the heretic. Religion is the tie between the Perfect and the imperfect.
