I studied harder than ever, and the study now was unchecked by any fear of possible consequences.

I had nothing left of the old faith save belief in "a God," and that began slowly to melt away.

The Theistic axiom: "If there be a God at all He must be at least as good as His highest creature," began with an "if," and to that "if" I turned my attention.

"Of all impossible things," writes Miss Frances Power Cobbe, "the most impossible must surely be that a man should dream something of the good and the noble, and that it should prove at last that his Creator was less good and less noble than he had dreamed." But, I questioned, are we sure that there is a Creator?
Granted that, if there is, He must be above His highest creature, but--is there such a being?
"The ground," says the Rev.Charles Voysey, "on which our belief in God rests is man.

Man, parent of Bibles and Churches, inspirer of all good thoughts and good deeds.
Man, the masterpiece of God's thought on earth.