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such a spiritual eye? We answer that 

 our conscience, our religious intuition 

 and the eternal and invariable laws of 

 thinking are just such organs. That an 

 ideal world exists, radiating a light of 

 its own, we are able to conclude from 

 perceptions received through our con- 

 science and our religious intuition. 



Our conscience gives us rigorous di- 

 rections and commandments, which 

 sometimes seem to counteract our 

 earthly happiness and show themselves 

 detrimental to our present success. If 

 our life were confined to this world, the 

 demands of our conscience were not 

 only useless and injurious but also in 

 themselves inexplicable. That man, in 

 his religious intuition, also apprehends 

 a reality of a different kind from the 

 material one, appears from the fact that 

 all peoples, in all times and in all 

 stages of evolution, have possessed a 

 religion, as we now do, a certain con- 

 ception of supernatural things. It may 

 be granted that a great amount of de- 

 lusion enters into all religions. Never- 



