CHAPTER XVII 



THE ELECTRICAL THEORY OF CREATION WILL SAVE 

 MODERN SCIENCE FROM PANTHEISM 



IT is marvelous the number of scientists who ques- 

 tion the fact as to whether there is a personal God, 

 and who look upon the universe and its laws and 

 operations as the manifestation of a universal intel- 

 ligence that has no existence except as it is infused 

 as an invisible force through all nature. In other 

 words, pantheism, or belief in a world-God, has been 

 taking the place of the materialism of the past 

 century. And a vast array of distinguished agnos- 

 tics, so-called, from Darwin, Spinoza, Huxley and 

 Haeckel to Ingersoll, were really believers in pan- 

 theism. 



Haeckel says he adheres to the Monism of Spinoza 

 which, he says, is " matter, or infinitely extended sub- 

 stance; and spirit or energy, which is sensitive and 

 thinking substance. These are the two fundamental 

 attributes or principal properties of the all-embrac- 

 ing, divine essence of the world the universal sub- 

 stance." What is this but pantheism of the rankest 

 old, obsolete, pagan kind? What is "the all-embrac- 

 ing divine essence of the world the universal sub- 

 stance," but a substitute for God, a God which is 

 simply the substance of the world a world-God. 

 According to this, all the elements of the universe 

 are parts of Deity. The crystalline rocks and metals 



