TOHU-VA-VOHU 17
Somehow the tempter must have knowledge of our
thoughts, since his temptations are so adanted to
them. Ido not believe he can search our minds and
hearts; but I suppose he can read our actual thinking,
which is printed mind, as it were, just as we read the
pages of a book.
Of all reasoning in theology, the inferential is the
most unsatisfactory. Your logic may be irreproarh-
able, and yet your conclusion false. For possibly
it may turn out that there was something in the
Divine major or minor of which you on earth were
ignorant.
An inference is what you carry into a thing. But
what if I refuse to adit it ?
When you charge me with an inference, you say
in substance: If I were in your place I would think
or do so-and-so! But then you are not in my place,
and I refuse to put myself into yours.
All unreality, all ultraism, and all uncharity in
religion are derived from inferences. You first sup-
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