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world-plan consistently with their monarchotheistic First 

 Principle, it soon appears that creationism itself, even in 

 this dualistic form (which does to some degree extricate, or 

 appear to extricate, the creature from the embrace of the 

 Creator), must logically exclude the possibility of freedom. 

 For the Creator cannot, of course, create except by exactly 

 and precisely conceiving ; otherwise his product would not 

 differ from nonentity. The created nature must therefore 

 inevitably register the will and the plan of the Creator ; and 

 there is really no more escaping this under the dualistic 

 scheme than under the monistic, where the consequence has 

 been fearlessly drawn for us all, for all time, in the classic 

 illustration of Spinoza concerning the moving stone, flung 

 from the sling and coming to consciousness after the im- 

 pulse. Aware only of its unimpeded movement, and not at 

 all of the impelling start, this would of course imagine itself 

 self-rnoving and free. But those who see whence that un- 

 hindered movement really comes, know better. They know 

 how utterly predetermined are both its direction and its 

 rate, by the One who gave it to be. 



So much for the problem of Freedom. There is another, 

 the solution of which is also essential to the working fulfil- 

 ment of a moral life, — I mean the problem of Evil. This, 

 our third and fourth groups are clearly unequal to coping 

 with. They indeed have alike no conscious World-Author 

 to blame for evil, but they alike reduce all evil to natural 

 evil, since their necessarian systems provide no room for 

 blamable wrong in men. Thus they furnish no field for the 

 compensation of even natural evil (to say nothing of moral) 

 by voluntary good, and therefore they both force the unre- 

 served acceptance of " things as they are." 



Nor is this result escaped by a resort to the second group 

 of our systems. Neither Spenccrian Agnosticism nor the 

 higher forms of evolutional philosophy known as Cosmic 

 Theism or Idealistic Monism can avoid making the One 



