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He also tends to become sentimental 

 about the ultimate reality as he perceives it, 

 and tries to construct from it a kind of 

 religion : 



"The astonishment with which we gaze upon 

 the starry heavens and the microscopic life in a 

 drop of water, the awe with which we trace the 

 marvellous working of energy in the motion of 

 matter, the reverence with which we grasp the 

 universal dominance of the law of substance 

 throughout the universe all these are part of our 

 emotional life, falling under the heading of 

 c natural religion ' " (p. 122). 



"Pantheism teaches that God and the world 

 are one. The idea of God is identical with that 

 of nature or substance. ... In pantheism, God, 

 as an intra-mundane being, is everywhere identical 

 with nature itself, and is operative within the world 

 as * force ' or c energy.' The latter view alone is 

 compatible with our supreme law the law of 

 substance. It follows necessarily that pantheism 

 is the world-system of the modern scientist" (p. 102). 



" This c godless world-system ' substantially 

 agrees with the monism or pantheism of the 

 modern scientist ; it is only another expression 

 for it, emphasising its negative aspect, the non- 

 existence of any supernatural deity. In this sense 

 Schopenhauer justly remarks : 



" ' Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism. 

 The truth of pantheism lies in its destruction of 



