ACCEPTING THE UNIVERSE 



not exterminate the herbivorous; there is more good 

 than evil everywhere; more peace than war; more 

 kindness than cruelty. The God of Nature goes his 

 way, but his way is our way; we have arisen out of 

 Nature; as it is, the chances of life have been in our 

 favor; the stream makes its own channel; the waters 

 find their way to the sea; they do not all stagnate on 

 the way. Some of the seed which the winds sow 

 falls upon barren places, but not the most of it. 

 Some men are born criminals or cripples or mal- 

 formed, but not the majority. The creatures preyed 

 upon always vastly outnumber the creatures that 

 prey upon them. And in truth, in the whole realm 

 of Nature more things wait upon man than war 

 upon him. 



VIII. FINITE AND INFINITE 



The unnamable, the unthinkable, the omnipotent, 

 the omnipresent, we cannot discuss or define in 

 terms of our humanity. The moment we try to do 

 so we are involved in contradictions, just as we are 

 when we try to define the sphere in terms of the 

 plane. The sphere has no length, it has no breadth, 

 it has no thickness, in the sense that bodies upon 

 its surface have. It has no weight, and it has no be- 

 ginning and no end, and we may say that its motion 

 is eternal rest; yet rest implies motion, and motion 

 implies rest. 

 When we say that there is no God, we only mean 



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