SOUNDINGS 



essence and the sum of all life of the globe. I do not 

 mind if you call them terrestrial forces; the terres- 

 trial and the celestial are one. I do not mind if you 

 call them material forces; the material and the 

 spiritual are inseparable. I do not mind if you call 

 this view the infidelity (or atheism) of science; 

 science, too, is divine; all knowledge is knowledge of 

 God. 



I have never taken shelter in any form of ec- 

 clesiasticism. I have never tried to clothe myself in 

 the delusive garments of a superstitious age. I have 

 never pinned my faith to a man-made God, however 

 venerable. I have inured my mind to the open air 

 of the universe, to things as they are, to the dealings 

 of a Power that exacts an eye for an eye and a 

 tooth for a tooth; a power that deals on the square. 

 Those apparent outlaws of the heavens, the comets, 

 do not disturb the naturist; sidereal space strewn 

 with dead worlds and burnt-out suns do not dis- 

 turb him; the spectacle of the great planets rolling 

 through space void of life for untold millions of 

 years, does not disturb him; and if life should never 

 come to them, and should ultimately disappear from 

 the earth, he would not lose faith; he could behold 

 Europe drenched with the blood of a needless, 

 wicked war and not lose faith; he could see civili- 

 zation retarded and the unjust cause triumph, and 

 still know that the Creative Energy has our good at 

 heart and always will have it. 



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