The phantom walls of this illusion fade,
And show us that the world is wholly fair.”
THE CLAUSES OF THE CATECHISM REPEATED
THE CATECHISM
Q. 1. What are you?
A. I am a being alive and conscious upon this earth, a descendant of ancestors who rose by gradual processes from lower forms of animal life, and with struggle and suffering became man.
Q. 2. What, then, may be meant by the Fall of man?
A. At a certain stage of development man became conscious of a difference between right and wrong, so that thereafter, when his actions fell below a normal standard of conduct, he felt ashamed and sinful. He thus lost his animal innocency, and entered on a long period of human effort and failure; nevertheless, the consciousness of degradation marked a rise in the scale of existence.