CHAPTER XII. 

 Man and Infinity. 



IT IS the perennial honor of Sweden's 

 greatest philosopher, Christofer Jacob 

 Bostrom, to have satisfactorily ex- 

 plained the extremely difficult and 

 complicated question with which our 

 last chapter concluded. He has shown 

 that man, exactly on the supposition 

 that he is an eternal part of God's be- 

 ing, requires and must go through an 

 evolution in time. According to Bos- 

 trom, religious intuition has found the 

 truth that man is an eternal idea in 

 God, a living member in His organism. 

 But Bostrom has also understood and 

 considered the difference implied in 

 thinking of man as a member in God's 

 organism and in thinking of this mem- 

 ber as living its independent life. In 

 the former case man possesses the same 



