So it is easy for you to think of God in the terms of a similar diffused and competent love.

I think you are far nearer right than we are." "What I cannot understand," she pursued carefully, "is your preservation of such a very ancient state of mind.

This patriarchal idea you tell me is thousands of years old ?" "Oh yes--four, five, six thousand--every so many." "And you have made wonderful progress in those years--in other things ?" "We certainly have.

But religion is different.

You see, our religions come from behind us, and are initiated by some great teacher who is dead.