Whatever the meaning of [Greek: aionios], the_ fearful _emotion which is symbolised, is eternal or independent of time, by the same right as the_ ecstatic _emotion_.' He sees this clearly enough; but the strange thing is that he does not see the converse.

He sees that the Christian conception of morality necessitates the affirmation of hell.

He does not see that the denial of hell is the denial of Christian morality, and that in calling the former a dream, as he does, he does not call the latter a dream likewise.
We can close our eyes to none of these perplexities.

The only way to resist their power is not to ignore them, but to realise to the full their magnitude, and to see how, if we let them take away from us anything, they will in another moment take everything; to see that we must either set our foot upon their necks, or that they will set their feet on ours; to see that we can look them down, but that we can never look them through; to see that we can make them impotent if we will, but that if they are not impotent they will be omnipotent.
But the strongest example of this is yet to come: and this is not any special belief either as to religion or morals, but a belief underlying both of these, and without which neither of them were possible.

It is a belief which from one point of view we have already touched upon--the belief in the freedom of the will.