mind look directly at
the chair, instead of getting its knowledge of the chair through
vibrations of bits of meat? Or isn't there any chair out there to look
at?"

"There!" exclaimed Hitt. "Now you've put your mental finger upon it.
And now we are ready to nail to the cross of ignominy one of the
crudest, most insensate beliefs of the human race. _The human mind
gets nothing whatsoever from vibrations, from the human, fleshly eye,
nor from any one of the five so-called physical senses!_ The physical
sense-testimony which mankind believe they receive from the eyes, the
ears, and the other sense organs, can, even at best, consist only of a
lot of disconnected, unintelligible vibrations; and anything that the
mind may infer from such vibrations is inferred _without any outside
authority whatsoever!"_

"Well!" ejaculated Miss Wall and Haynerd in a breath.

"And, further," continued Hitt, "we are forced to admit that all that
the mind knows is the contents of itself, of its own consciousness,
and nothing more. Then, instead of seeing, hearing, and feeling real
material objects outside of ourselves, we are in reality seeing,
hearing, and feeling our own mental concepts of things--in other
words, _our own thoughts of things!"_

A deep silence lay for some moments over the little group at the
conclusion of Hitt's words. Then Doctor Morton nodded his acquiescence
in the deduction. "And that," he said, "effectually disposes of the
question of space."

"There is no space, Doctor," replied Hitt. "Space is likewise a mental
concept. The human mind sees, hears, and feels nothing but its own
thoughts. These it posits within itself with reference to one another,
and calls the process 'seeing material objects in space.' The mind as
little needs a space in which to see things as in which to dream them.
I repeat, we do not see external things, or things outside of
ourselves. We see always and only the thoughts that are within our own
mentalities. Everything is within."

"That's why," murmured Carmen, "Jesus said, 'The kingdom of heaven is
within you.'"

"Exactly!" said Hitt. "Did he not call evil, and all that originates
in matter, the lie about God? And a lie is wholly mental. I tell you,
the existence of a world outside of ourselves, an objective world
composed of matter, is wholly inferred--it is mental visualizing--and
it is unreal, for it is not based upon fact, upon truth!"

"Then," queried Haynerd, "our supposed 'outer