8 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



Sometimes, one and the same book in one 

 half teaches materiahsm, in the other half 

 idealism : the one affirming that everything is 

 matter, the other that matter is nothing, but 

 that everything is mind, and mind is God. 



The leading principles of the Pantheistic the- 

 ory are, — (1.) That there is an Infinite and 

 Absolute Being. Of this Being nothing can 

 be affirmed but actuality. It is denied that it 

 is conscious, intelligent, or voluntary. (2.) It 

 is subject to the blind necessity of self-evolu- 

 tion or development. (3.) This development 

 being necessary is constant ; from everlasting 

 to everlasting. According to the Braminical 

 doctrine, indeed, there are successive cycles of 

 activity and repose, each cycle being measured 

 by countless milliards of centuries. According 

 to the moderns, self-evolution being necessary, 

 there can be no repose, so that Ohne Welt kein 

 Gott. (4.) The Finite is, therefore, the exist- 

 ence form of the Infinite ; all that is in the 

 latter for the time being is in the former. 

 All that is possible is actual. (5.) The Finite 

 is the Infinite, or, to use theistic language, the 

 World is God, in the sense that all the world 

 is and contains is the form in which God, at 

 each successive moment, exists. There is no 



