lii SUMMARIES 



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VI. The real relations between Nature and Human Nature 

 now seen to imply an idealistic philosophy : man Nou- 

 menal, not merely Phenomenal; and every human 

 being thus absolutely, eternally, and unchangeably real, 

 while the natural world is essentially fleeting . . 48 



VII. Critical consideration of the question, so much and so 

 loosely debated. Are the theory of Evolution and the 

 Christian Religion really compatible? .... 50 



MODERN SCIENCE AND PANTHEISM 



The various aspects of the question. Is Pantheism the legitimate 

 outcome of Modern Science ? Detail of the subsidiary ques- 

 tions which it implies ........ 56 



I. What Pantheism exactly is, — the consolidation of the 

 Divine Being with all possible being : distinction be- 

 tween the two forms of Pantheism, the Atheistic and 

 the Acosmic; essential Atheism of both at root . . 58 



II. Exact discrimination of Pantheism from Materialism and 

 from Subjective Idealism: its superiority over both; 

 its theistic deficiency, even in its Acosmic form, in re- 

 gard especially to the idea of Divine Immanence . 65 



III. Exact contrast between Pantheism and Deism, and emi- 

 nent superiority of Pantheism : it breaks down the 

 mechanical and irreducible separation of God from the 

 world, which Deism sets up; the participation of popu- 

 lar Thaumaturgical Theism in this deistic fault . . 69 



IV. The service of Pantheism in contributing toward the for- 

 mation of genuine Theism : it suggests, though it nec- 

 essarily fails to fulfil, the theistic ideal of God immanent 

 in the world by the activity of his image in the mind 

 of Man, the only Divine Immanence compatible with 

 the moral freedom of the Soul ..... 72 



V. Why Pantheism nevertheless rouses apprehension and 

 aversion in the Modern Religious Consciousness : we 

 are prescient of its antagonism to our Moral Freedom 

 or Self-Activity 74 



