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creation ; it abides immanently in this, and is no 

 longer conceived as separate and therefore itself 

 limited in space and in time. This faulty concep- 

 tion of God as temporally and spatially conditioned, 

 characteristic of the cruder dualistic view of things 

 with which human efforts at theological theory 

 begin, is overcome by pantheism, at least in part. 

 But the pantheistic interpretation of immanence, 

 as will appear farther on, is itself very gravely de- 

 ficient : quite irreconcilable, in fact, with the con- 

 ditions of a genuine theism, or with those of a 

 genuine religion. 



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But the eminent merit of pantheism as contrasted 

 with deism, we have now reached the position to 

 see. By the name " deism " it has been generally, 

 if tacitly, agreed to designate that falling short of 

 theism which stands at the opposite pole from 

 pantheism. If pantheism is defective by confound- 

 ing God and the world in an anti-moral identity, 

 deism comes short by setting God in an isolated 

 and impassable separation from the world. Deism 

 thus falls partly under the same condemnation of 

 materiality that a rational judgment pronounces 

 upon sensuous theism, with its zoomorphic ^ con- 



1 Falsely called " anthropomorphic," since the properly human form 

 of being is the rational, not the physiological, and the faulty " anthro- 



