“Can the infinite be supposed to shift the responsibility of the ultimate destiny of any created thing to the finite?  Our theologians pretend that it can.  I doubt.—­Heretical.  Stet.

“Protestantism means none of your business.  But it is afraid of its own logic.—­Stet.  No logical resting-place short of None of your business.

“The supreme self-indulgence is to surrender the will to A spiritual director.—­Protestantism gave up a great luxury.—­Did it though?

“Asiatic modes of thought and speech do not express the ’relations in
which the American feels him self to stand to his superiors in this or
any other sphere of being.  Republicanism must have its own religious
phraseology, which is not that borrowed from oriental DESPOTISMS.

“Idols and dogmas in place of character; pills and theories in place of wholesome living.  See the histories of theology and medicine passim.—­Hits ’em.

“‘Of such is the kingdom of heaven.’  Do you mean to say Jean Chauvin,
that
          ‘heaven lies about us in our infancy’?

“Why do you complain of your organization?  Your soul was in A hurry, and made A rush for A body.  There are patient spirits that have waited from eternity, and never found parents fit to be born of.—­How do you know anything about all that?  Dele.

“What sweet, smooth voices the negroes have!  A hundred generations fed on bananas.—­Compare them with our apple-eating white folks!—­It won’t do.  Bananas came from the West Indies.

“To tell A man’s temperament by his handwriting.  See if the dots of his i’s run ahead or not, and if they do, how far.—­I have tried that—­on myself.