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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- C

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