[Footnote 79: "Anti-Theistic Theories," 4th ed. p. 517.] [Footnote 80: _Id._, pp. 518, 519.] Such a testimony, from such a source, counts for rather more than the arguments emanating thence. As to the assertion, again, that Atheists say "there is no God"--an assertion made with surprising frequency by professed Agnostics--it was constantly met by Bradlaugh with the answer that the phrase has no meaning. "The initial difficulty is in defining the word 'God.' It is equally impossible to intelligently affirm or deny any proposition unless there is at least an understanding, on the part of the affirmer or denier, of the meaning of every word used in the proposition. To me the word 'God' standing alone is a word without meaning."[81] [Footnote 81: Pamphlet, "Is there a God?" p. 1.] It would have been more exact to say that it has too many meanings to stand for any one in particular. Once defined, the alleged existence can be rationally denied, as may the existence of a race of centaurs, half men half horses, or of dragons who breathe fire, or of a being answering to the description of Neptune, driving a chariot on the sea, or of Apollo, driving the sun. All definitions of God which affirm personality or human attributes are open to immediate stultification by argument. "I have never yet heard," wrote Bradlaugh, "a definition of God from any living man, nor have I read a definition by dead or living man, that was not self-contradictory.... But the moment you tell me you mean the God of the Bible, or the God of the Koran, or the God of any particular Church, I am prepared to tell you that I deny that God."[82] The person who says we have no right to deny the existence of his imagined God until we have been all through the universe, has on his own showing no right to deny the existence of such Gods as are described in the stories of Saturn and Thor. The most paralytic Agnosticism, however, like the most devout Theism, seems content to be as sure that these are imaginary existences, as that Julius Cæesar was never in America. [Footnote 82: Second reply to Bishop Magee, p. 35.]