Either we are God or God is not!--Child of a century whose every year has laid upon your brow, old man, the ice of its unbelief, here, here is the summing up of your lifetime of thought, of your science and your reflections! Dear Monsieur Becker, you have laid your head upon the pillow of Doubt, because it is the easiest of solutions; acting in this respect with the majority of mankind, who say in their hearts: 'Let us think no more of these problems, since God has not vouchsafed to grant us the algebraic demonstrations that could solve them, while He has given us so many other ways to get from earth to heaven.' "Tell me, dear pastor, are not these your secret thoughts?
Have I evaded the point of any?
nay, rather, have I not clearly stated all?
First, in the dogma of two principles,--an antagonism in which God perishes for the reason that being All-Powerful He chose to combat.

Secondly, in the absurd pantheism where, all being God, God exists no longer.

These two sources, from which have flowed all the religions for whose triumph Earth has toiled and prayed, are equally pernicious.

Behold in them the double-bladed axe with which you decapitate the white old man whom you enthrone among your painted clouds! And now, to me the axe, I wield it!" Monsieur Becker and Wilfrid gazed at the young girl with something like terror.
"To believe," continued Seraphita, in her Woman's voice, for the Man had finished speaking, "to believe is a gift.

To believe is to feel.
To believe in God we must feel God.