It will show him that, let him give his morality what base he will, he cannot conceive of things without the same contradiction in terms.

If good be a thing of any spiritual value--if it be, in other words, what every moral system supposes it to be--that good can co-exist with evil is just as unthinkable as that God can.

The value of moral good is supposed to lie in this--that by it we are put _en rapport_ with something that is better than ourselves--some '_stream of tendency_,' let us say, '_that makes for righteousness_,' But if this stream of tendency be not a personal God, what is it?
Is it Nature?
Nature, we have seen already, is open to just the same objections that God is.

It is equally guilty of all the evil that is contained in it.

Is it Truth, then--pure Truth for its own sake?
Again, we have seen already that as little can it be that.