GOD AND THE WORLD. 299 



devotes his strength and his life to the search for the 

 truth, is freely credited with all that is evil ; the 

 theistic church-goer, who thoughtlessly follows the 

 empty ceremonies of Catholic worship, is at once 

 assumed to be a good citizen, even if there be no 

 meaning whatever in his faith, and his morality be 

 deplorable. This error will only be destroyed when, 

 in the twentieth century, the prevalent superstition 

 gives place to rational knowledge and to a monistic 

 conception of the unity of God and the world. 



