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Mr. Redding was an agnostic, as Miss Pringle had called him. His verdict upon any divine interposition in the affairs of men was "not proven." He saw nothing about him to justify such a conclusion, and he did not, as a matter of fact, much trouble himself to look for a justification. It would not have been convenient, and convenience was his fetish. It is so with most of us, if the truth must be confessed; only, in the majority of our cases, we include in the study of our own a sense of the necessity, or making some provision against a possible after life of rewards and penalties. We can do no harm by doing good, and we may find the practice profitable. Anyhow, virtue is unlikely to prove itself a punishable offence in the beyond. So it is wise to be on the safe side.
The best that can be said of the impious is that they have, when they have it, the courage of their opinions; yet it is strange how often, among disbelievers, that courage contradicts itself in superstition. Mr.