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not be destroyed “ (Daniel vii. 14) was said with reference to the Perfect Soul! It is useless to labour the point any further, suffice it to say that the mīsconception will be removed as soon as the subject is approached in the true spirit of scientific investigation.
But what shall we say to those good men who find fault with the attainment of Divinity itself on the ground that one shall have nothing to do then? Let us ask them what they will like the Gods to do? Will they have them stand behind counters and sell dainty ribbon to pretty 'butterflies' from a heavenly or earthly May Fair? Will you have them enter into the service of one another, or perhaps come down to join the staff of a big ' stores' like Selfrige's? Possibly you are thinking of an insurance business, where the Gods might be more useful than men? But no insurance company will flourish if omniscience is there to tell most of its intending customers that they run no risk of immediate death. A more dignified line is perhaps that of law. Shall -we, therefore, imagine the King's Bench Division presided over by a properly robed Divinity. But wouldn't that be the death of the lawyer class, who will be ready with their precedents and protests, and object to His Lordship's appearance, with all the rhetoric of their tongues?
