Give us that which we have sought so long--the test of truth.

Give it us, and we will be as gods." There was an impolite and sneering scepticism in his words and manner that secretly pleased most of them at the table, though it seemed to bother Bishop Morehouse.
"Dr.Jordan* has stated it very clearly," Ernest said.

"His test of truth is: 'Will it work?
Will you trust your life to it ?'" * A noted educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of the Christian Era.

He was president of the Stanford University, a private benefaction of the times.
"Pish!" Dr.Hammerfield sneered.

"You have not taken Bishop Berkeley* into account.