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 "Is that right?" asked the Dream. "Have all of your experiences been material?"

"No, indeed," said Marjorie, "not nearly all. None of the biggest ones have been."

"Well then, how would you put it?" asked the Dream.

Marjorie thought for quite a long time. "I believe," she said, "that I would say that matter is human experience."

"Good;" said the Dream. "And as human life is made up of the same sort of stuff that I am, that disposes of "matter" prettyof 'matter' pretty [sic] thoroughly, doesn't it?"

"It certainly does," said Marjorie. "Looking at it that way makes it a lot easier to say, 'Nothing is the matter,' when people ask the question, doesn't it?"

"What else do you get out of it?" asked the Dream. "A clear thought isn't good for much unless you get something out of it that you can use every day. You've found one thing, now what else is there?"

Marjorie lay still and thought again. "Well," she said at last; "if matter is human experience, and matter makes all of our troubles; then the right thing is to have more spiritual experiences than human experiences; and when our spiritual experiences over-balance and out-number the human ones; then we will really begin to live a spiritual life. If the thing that we call a