_Christian_--Your argument is conclusive. Now, as you have decided that there is no God, and also claim that your only aid, Mr. Reason, gave you the material out of which you made your decision, will you call him and allow me to ask him a few questions? _Judgment_--Most willingly. We all are free thinkers, and delight in investigation. Brother Reason, please call in; Christian is here and wishes a little information of you. _Reason_--Mr. Christian, Brother Judgment informs me that you wish some information from me. Please state your question. _Christian_--Did you present the idea of the existence of God to your brother Judgment, and if so, where and how did you come by it? _Reason_--I received it from Brother Memory, and opened it out and held it up so that Brother Judgment could scan it thoroughly, and he decided there was no such being, and I agree with him. _Christian_--Will you call Memory, that I may learn where and how he obtained the idea? (_Memory enters._) _Christian_--Mr. Memory, are you an Atheist, and did you give Reason the idea of a God? If you did, how did you get it? Did you bring it into the world with you? _Memory_--"Bring it into the world with me." _What an absurd question!_ I never had an idea only as it was given me by Brother Reflection. If you doubt this, try and remember something you have never thought of, or think of something you never perceived. This, then, is the truth: Reflection received the idea from Perception and gave it to you, and you gave it to Memory, and he held it up to the eye of Reason, who, with your aid, spread it out before the mind of your brother Judgment, and he gave the decision, that there is no God; so we are all Atheists. Have you any more questions? _Christian_--Yes, one more at least; I wish _now_ to know how your brother Perception obtained the idea of a God--will you tell me, or call him? _Memory_--Oh, I can tell you; he has five porters who bring him all he ever gets, and they, with us, are all Atheists. But one or another of these must have brought him the idea. _Christian_--Will you ask them which one gave it to your brother Perception? _Memory_--You, for some reason, are very particular. I will, however, to gratify you, call them, or at least some of them. Brother Eye, Christian wishes to know if you gave the idea of a God to Mr. Perception? _Eye_--_What a foolish question!_ You, an Atheist, ask me, another Atheist, if I have ever seen a living God where there is none to look at--you have let Christian lead you out until he has almost drawn from you the proof that David told the truth about us when he called all Atheists fools. I have seen all visible things, but _nothing_ is too small a mark for me to discover! _Christian_--Mr. Eye, don't be in a hurry; just let me ask, do Free Thinkers get scared and refuse to think? _Eye_--I will leave you now, and tell the other porters what a fix your philosophy has led us into.