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Show IF THE WORLD WERE CREATED BY DREAMS J During the last days of the war a book appeared dealing with H life beyond the grave. No book of late years ha- caused more com ment. One writer, dealing with the idealism portrayed says: "If Ihe worU were an image created by our dreams, what re- jl wards for rigbr thinking what remorse for bail schemes It" one I bcliecs this to be true he will not even permit himself to think evil, j A clergyman once told me that belief m Chrisl was s mental state I excited b sympathy Eor the sufferings oi others, and my own exper- I ience subsequent! confirmed 'his belief I had visions of an r-arth- I ly paradise and saw and felt and heard things that were wholly imaginary im-aginary but were ;is true to me for the time being as is the paper ou I which these words appeal Still 1 w as able to understand a? the saint! ! time that they were creations ol the imagination, ami this is what i has convinced me of trie truth of absolute idealism 1 "If absolute idealism is true, then all religions are tr ie to :l 0 I who beli. e in them, and we should be abb' to be tolerant with P another ami put an end to religious dissensions and civic strife IT we are pursuing money, the features of the god we are revealing will be those of Mammon , if we are pursuing ambition, the features , will be those of Satan If, on the other hand, we measure b , in terms of lorvice, the features will be those of the Son pf Qod |