2 1 4 Traces of Unity, &c. 



wide and high and deep communion. It is impossible 

 to stop short of this conclusion. In other words, the 

 sphere of humanity by being thus more than co- 

 extensive with that of nature is wide enough to 

 include the very widest conception of divinity, even 

 though this should go on widening for ever: and, 

 therefore, without at all lowering the idea of the God- 

 head, it is quite conceivable that man may be the 

 " image of God," and also that " the invisible things of 

 Him from the creation of the world are clear Jy seen, 

 being understood by the things that are made, even 

 His eternal power and Godhead." Nor does the idea 

 of the Godhead become indefinite by so regarding it. 

 On the contrary, among the invisible things of Him 

 which are clearly seen in the things that are made may 

 even be a glimpse of Unity in Trinity, and Trinity in 

 Unity, for this, to my mind, is the most distinct vision 

 which remains when the eye, dazzled by the contempla- 

 tion of unity in diversity and diversity in unity, as 

 revealed in nature, is raised from nature to the God of 

 nature. 



HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJES1V, 

 ST. MARTIN'S LANE. 



