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same premisses, which are not knowledge 

 gained from the arguers having actually 

 witnessed the First Cause at the first 

 action in the void, but inductions about 

 the nature and purpose of that action 

 derived from study of its results millions 

 of centuries afterwards. Thus, though 

 they differ in their conclusions, Anthropo- 

 morphist and Agnostic Evolutionist are 

 identical in their methods. The finite 

 intellect of man is the basis of the belief 

 of each. One believes that God made 

 man in His own image ; the other believes 

 that man is gradually developing into the 

 image of God. The Agnostic Evolution- 

 ist is the Anthropomorphist inverted. 



Between the two there is a still more 

 striking resemblance. When thoroughly 

 in earnest about their philosophies, both 

 are inclined to be puritanical. Neither 

 has any rational cause to be so ; but both 

 of them are. Neither can ever completely 

 divest himself of a feeling that the pursuit 

 of pleasure should be suspect. Pleasures, 

 both would say, are incidental to life. 



