The concept of God as a ‘separate entity’ or quasi-personal agency was an unthinkable one, defying coherent analysis. It should be replaced by the conception of a ‘moral world order’ to which we necessarily belonged as practical beings and in which we could be sure that good actions would infallibly succeed and evil ones just as certainly fail: belief in such an order was, moreover, a ‘fundamental presupposition’ of the moral consciousness and on this account did not admit of argument or demonstration.
