T. Will that remove the wrong of their opposition?
M. The wrong is of their own choice.
T. Is not the right also?
M. That is a heretical notion. I see you have suffered already from your conversation with them.
T. How have I suffered?
M. Why, you would encourage the doctrine of fatalism. Mind is a free agent. When you make the religion of the circle a choice, you would do away with the cross. That is no cross, which you choose.
T. The unconverted will oppose. Is not that bearing the cross?
M. It is; but you know that no mind would choose religion—I will say that no mind would choose a religion under such disadvantages, unless for the crown it will receive when God judges the world. The sceptic will not receive religion, and he must reap his reward.
The mind was so incensed against heretics, that my guide said, “Is it a wonder that they reject the truth? There is another wheel to this machinery.”
“What wheel?” said I.