CHAPTER XIII. 



ANIMA MUNDI. 



" There lives and works 

 A Soul in all things : and that Soul is God." 



Cowper. 



THIS witness is true : and its truth is not im- 

 paired by the ignorant positiveness of Agnosti- 

 cism, or by the positive ignorance of Atheism. 

 As to Atheism, indeed, the verdict already pro- 

 nounced, after a most minute and searching 

 investigation, is found to . be unalterable : 

 "Every part of the universe is an argument 

 against atheism as a theory thereof." l Ag- 

 nosticism, despite its pretensions to Knowledge, 

 as its very name imports, is a mere confession 

 of Ignorance. And even that ignorance, con- 

 fronted by the facts of the universe, ceases to 

 be possible when its votaries are willing to cease 

 to be -"willingly ignorant." 



Is there, or is there not, "a Soul in all 



1 Theodore Parker : Theism, Atheism, and the Popular 

 Theology, p. 10. 



