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tlieless, religious errors would be in- 

 conceivable if man did not apprehend 

 something supernatural which he 

 wrongly interpreted. Superstition would 

 not exist at all, because, as w^e have al- 

 ready pointed out, nobody can think, 

 speak or form any idea whatever of 

 things that are entirely beyond all ex- 

 perience. To argue with a person about 

 such never-apprehended realities, would 

 be like discussing colors with the blind. 

 But now it is a fact that apprehensions 

 of immaterial substance are so common 

 to man's consciousness that if we could 

 find somebodv who did not understand 

 what we said and meant in speaking 

 about these things, we should be safe 

 in asserting that such a man was not a 

 normal person. 



But if all men have an immaterial 

 experience, why do ideas and opinions 

 differ so about the same experience, 

 and above all why do some people even 

 deny its existence? The explanation of 

 this surprising contradiction may be 

 understood when we consider that man 



