44 Darwinism and Deity. 



ning of never-ceasing and rational life, enduring through 

 all time." 



Plato, then, as the result of the reflections of his 

 life, held that all the motions in nature, that is, all 

 natural phenomena, are caused directly by a spiritual 

 being which pervades the universe. Hence, it follows 

 that what we call the forces of nature are only the will 

 and direct action of that spirit. 



Now what is, or rather, who is, the spiritual being 

 that pervades all space? There can be but one answer, 

 and we can give it in the words of Newton. 



The very paragraph preceding the one in which he says, 

 experimental philosophy does not pretend to say what 

 gravity is, but only how it acts, is a statement of the gov- 

 ernment of the universe ; and he wrote to Bentley that he 

 put this paragraph into the Principia as an addition and 

 mere hint, which others may develop. He says: "God 

 is omnipotent, not virtually onlv, but also substantially. 

 In Him are all things contained and moved. It is al- 

 lowed by all that the Supreme God exists necessarily; 

 and by the same necessity He exists always, and every- 

 where. Whence, also, He is all similar, all eye, all ear, 

 all brain, all arm, all power to perceive, to understand, 

 to act, but in a manner not at all human, in a manner 

 not at all corporeal, in a manner utterly unknown to us." 



Plato says what we call the forces of nature is only 

 the direct action of a spiritual being who pervades the 

 universe, enveloping every particle of matter. And 

 Newton adds, that being is the living God. 



The last grand generalization of science, the corre- 

 lation of forces and the indestructibility of force, does 

 not in any way affect this statement. It is true that 



