“Your philosophy is humane.”
“It is not a philosophy. It is a revelation.”
“In what consists the difference?”
“A philosophy is a groping upwards. A revelation is a light falling from above. A philosophy is reached only after the intellect is ripe and experi[pg 175]enced, attained to when man’s mind is fully developed. A revelation comes to the child as his mind and conscience are opening and shows him his way. Here, little one! stand on that cippus and answer me.”
Castor took the child in his arms and lifted him to a marble pedestal.
“Little child,” said he, “answer me a few simple questions. Who made you?”
“God,” answered the boy readily.
“And why did He make you?”
“To love and serve Him.”
“And how can you serve Him?”