“Well you must use words.”
“You ought not to think in words. I mean—you can think in your brain by imagining yourself going on and on through it, endless space.”
“You can’t grasp space with your mind.”
“You don’t grasp it. You go through it.”
“I see what you mean. To me it is a fearful idea. Like eternal punishment.”
“There’s no such thing as eternal punishment. The idea is too silly. It makes God a failure and a fool. It’s a man’s idea. The men who take the hearthrug. Sitting on a throne judging everybody and passing sentence is a thing a man would do.”
“But humanity is wicked.”
“Then God is. You can’t separate God and humanity and that includes women who don’t really believe any of those things.”
“But. Look at the churches. Look at women and the parsons.”
“Women like ritual and things and they like parsons, some parsons, because they are like women, penetrable to light, as Wilberforce said the other day, and understand women better than most men do.”