280 THE UNIVERSE 



of the earth, the dust we kick from our feet, the 

 manure of the stable, and the odor of decaying 

 vegetation are all a part of the body of God. And 

 this, they claim, is the God of the universe, and the 

 only God there is. 



This is a fair analysis of pantheism, of Haeckelism, 

 Darwin and Huxleyism, Ingersoll and agnosticism. 

 What a shame on human reason ! Yet these great 

 thinkers, seeing the intelligibility of nature, its uni- 

 formity of laws and operations, without a knowledge 

 of electricity were forced to this conclusion. 



A recent pamphlet by F. B. Titus, a barrister of 

 Toronto, entitled "The Pantheism of Modern Sci- 

 ence," says: "A summary of recent investigations 

 into life, force and substance and the opinions based 

 by scientists thereon leads up to the conclusion that 

 there is in nature a universal mind controling and 

 permeating nature's manifestations." 



In this I agree, but it is the universal mind of 

 Deity as manifested through the marvelous creative 

 forces of electricity. But this writer sums up his 

 facts and theories, and concludes that the pantheism 

 of the universe is the only explanation of all the 

 countless and complicated forces and organisms of 

 life which are to be found everywhere. And he con- 

 tends the modern tendency of science is back to the 

 old discarded pagan belief of pantheism. Even 

 Flammarion seems imbued with that idea, and 

 Haeckel championed it in his monistic theories. 

 But as a knowledge of electricity has killed mate- 

 rialism, so will it defeat and destroy pantheism. 

 This lawyer-scientist thinks nothing can prevent 

 science from falling into the arms of pantheism, and 

 he champions it vigorously. 



