SHALL WE ACCEPT THE UNIVERSE? 



worship in life. Green and blue and red and orange 

 are not in the objects that reflect them, but are an 

 experience of the eye. We might with our tongues 

 deny the air, but our spoken words prove it. We 

 cannot lift ourselves over the fence by our own 

 waistbands; no more can we by searching find God, 

 because He is not an object that has place and form 

 and limitations. He is the fact of the fact, the life 

 of the life, the soul of the soul, the incomprehensi- 

 ble, the sum of all contradictions, the unit of all 

 diversity; he who knows Him, knows Him not; he 

 who is without Him, is full of Him; turn your back 

 upon Him, then turn your back upon gravity, upon 

 air, upon light. He cannot be seen, but by Him all 

 seeing comes. He cannot be heard, yet by Him all 

 hearing comes. He is not a being, yet apart from 

 Him there is no being — there is no apart from 

 Him. We contradict ourselves when we deny Him; 

 it is ourselves we deny, and equally do we con- 

 tradict ourselves when we accept Him; it is some- 

 thing apart from ourselves which we accept. 



When half-gods go, says Emerson, the gods ar- 

 rive. But half -gods never go; we can house and en- 

 tertain no other. What can we do with the Infinite, 

 the Eternal? We can only deal with things in time 

 and space — things that can be numbered and 

 measured. What can we do with the infinitely little, 

 the infinitely great? All our gods are half -gods made 

 in our own image. No surer does the wax take the 



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