But, though one difficulty will be thus got rid of, another equally great will take its place.

Our moral sense, it is true, will no more be shocked by the conception of an eternal discord in things, but we shall be confronted by a fatalism that will allow to us no moral being at all.

If we shall all reach the same place in the end--if inevitably we shall all do so--it is quite plain that our freedom to choose in the matter is a freedom that is apparent only.

Mr.
Leslie Stephen, it seems, sees this clearly enough.

Once give morality its spiritual and supernatural meaning, and there is, he holds, '_some underlying logical necessity which binds_ [a belief in hell] _indissolubly with the primary articles of the faith_.' Such a system of retribution, he adds, is '_created spontaneously_' by the '_conscience.
Heaven and hell are corollaries that rise and fall together....