Let us consider first how free-will is a moral necessity; next how it is an intellectual impossibility; and lastly how, though it be impossible, we yet, in defiance of intellect, continue, as moral beings, to believe in it.

Let us but once realise that we do this, that all mankind universally do this and have done--and the difficulties offered us by theism will no longer stagger us.

We shall be prepared for them, prepared not to drive them away, but to endure their presence.

If in spite of my reason I can believe that my will is free, in spite of my reason I can believe that God is good.

The latter belief is not nearly so hard as the former.