Life and Mind 67 



stead of being a mere exudation fiom a material brain, is that 

 Infinite Mind itself shining- through the clouds of matter, and gradually 

 developing the brain as an instrument for its future use; that the 

 limitations of our mental processes are due to imperfections in the 

 instrument it uses, an instrument not yet fully developed. Imperfect 

 as its manifestations are, I see in it that which thinks, which reasons, 

 which plans, and which directs; that which inspires and lifts; that which 

 creates the beautiful and majestic things the artist and the poet em- 

 balm in color and in words; that which makes great men, great leaders 

 of men, great statesmen; that which makes men great in anything; that 

 which reaches out into space, further than the most distant suns of 

 which science tells us, — further, still further, until we feel there is no 

 boundary in space; that which looks back through the record of the 

 ages gone, — backward and still backward, until time disappears, and we 

 feel there is neither beginning nor ending, only an eternal now; that 

 by which we grasp the immensity, the majesty, the beauty, and the sym- 

 metry, of all, and which forces upon us the conviction, not that there is a 

 God, but that God is. 



