To say merely that it _may_ exist is but to put an ounce in one scale whilst there is a ton in the other.

It is an admission that is utterly dead and meaningless.

They can only entertain the question of its existence because its existence is essential to man as a moral being.

The only reason that can tempt us to say it _may_ be forces us in the same moment to say that it _must_ be, and that it _is_.
Which answer eventually the positive school will choose, and which answer men in general will accept, I make as I have said before, no attempt to answer.

My only purpose to show is, that if man has any moral being at all, he has it in virtue of his _immaterial_ will--a force, a something of which physical science can give no account whatever, and which it has no shadow of authority either for affirming or for denying; and further, that if we are not prevented by it from affirming his immaterial will, we are not prevented from affirming his immortality, and the existence of God likewise.
And now I come to that third point which I said I should deal with here, but which I have not yet touched upon.