i84 NATURE AND MAN. 



pletely according with the highest religion, in directing us to 

 recognize the omnipresent and constantly sustaining energy of 

 a personal Deity in every phenomenon of the universe around 

 us — the pantheistic and anthropomorphic conceptions of His 

 character being thus brought into harmony, when we view 

 "Nature" as the embodiment of the Divine volition, the "forces 

 of Nature " as so many diversified modes of its manifestation, 

 and the " laws of Nature " as nothing but man's expressions 

 of the uniformities which his limited observation can discern in 

 its phenomena. 



