"I see a great difference between my system and Christianity.

Both of them hold that life is a misery, and death is the deliverance.

But Christianity does not explain why God creates men, and sends them to the misery of earth, instead of leaving them in peace in heaven.

I, on the contrary, claim that I explain the creation of living and conscious beings." "Your assertion then means that the eternal principle of phenomena creates organisms, with the object of arriving at the consciousness of itself ?" "Exactly." "Now, we have already answered you as to that," said Schrotter, "and I will not keep back my objection any longer.

Let me get away for a moment from your system, and say that between metaphysics and theology I do not see the least difference.