"We  shall  turn  or  perish.  I  believe  that  we  shall  turn."
He  fixed  his  eyes  on  my  face.  "What  is  it,"  he  asked,  "that
brought  you  here  to  me,  to-day  ?  "

I  was  silent.
"The  motive,  faret  —  the  motive  that  sends  us  all  wan-
dering into  a  far  country  is  divine,  is  inherited  from  God
himself.  And  the  same  motive,  after  our  eyes  shall  have  been
opened,  after  we  shall  have  seen  and  known  the  tragedy  and
misery  of  life,  after  we  shall  have  made  the  mistakes  and  com-
mitted the  sins  and  experienced  the  emptiness  —  the  same
motive  will  lead  us  back  again.  That,  too,  is  an  adventure,
the  greatest  adventure  of  all.  Because,  when  we  go  back  we
shall  not  find  the  same  God  —  or  rather  we  shall  recognize
him  in  ourselves.  Autonomy  is  godliness,  knowledge  is
godliness.  We  went  away  cringing,  superstitious,  we  saw
everywhere  omens  and  evidences  of  his  wrath  in  the  earth
and  sea  and  sky,  we  burned  candles  and  sacrificed  animals
in  the  vain  hope  of  averting  scourges  and  other  calamities.
