AGENCY OF THE DEITY. 



And in the Scholium at the end of the " Prin- 

 cipia," he says, " God is one and the same God 

 always and everywhere. He is omnipresent, not 

 by means of his virtue alone, but also by his sub- 

 stance, for virtue cannot subsist without substance. 

 In him all things are contained, and move, but 

 without mutual passion : God is not acted upon 

 by the motions of bodies ; and they suffer no 

 resistance from the omnipresence of God." And 

 he refers to several passages confirmatory of this 

 view, not only in the Scriptures, but also in 

 writers who hand down to us the opinions of 

 some of the most philosophical thinkers of the 

 pagan world. He does not disdain to quote the 

 poets, and among the rest, the verses of Virgil ; 



Principio ccelum ac terras camposque liquentes 

 Lucentemque globum lunse, Titaniaque astra, 

 Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus 

 Mens agitat molem et magno se corpore miscet: 



warning his reader however against the doctrine 

 which such expressions as these are sometimes 

 understood to express : " All these things he 

 rules, not as the soul of the world, but as the 

 Lord of all." 



Clarke, the friend and disciple of Newton, is 

 one of those who has most strenuously put for- 

 wards the opinion of which we are speaking, 

 44 All things which we commonly say are the 

 effects of the natural powers of matter and laws 



