Intuitive reason declares the existence of God a fundamental verity.
Then it follows, since all men are possessors of intuitive reason to some extent, possessors of that deathless understanding which is the actual of their being, the spark of Divinity wholly wanting in none of the sons and daughters of God, that theoretical atheism to any great extent, to any wide prevalence, is an impossibility.
The most materialistic, godless people on the face of the earth, are the French; but one of their acknowledged leaders said, "If there is no God we must make one; France cannot do without God."