THE QUESTION RESTATED 



ing of which all departments of human know- 

 ledge have been laid under contribution, and 

 which in turn is fast remodelling human think- 

 ing on all subjects whatever, has relations of the 

 closest sort with religious philosophy. Sundry- 

 theological questions raised in the course of our 

 Prolegomena must now be considered in the 

 light of the general principles with which our 

 survey of universal evolution has furnished us. 

 Questions concerning God and the Soul, which 

 the Positive Philosophy simply set aside as un- 

 worthy the attention of scientific thinkers, never- 

 theless cannot be ignored by any philosophy 

 which seeks to bring about a harmony between 

 human knowledge and human aspirations ; and 

 though we may confess ourselves unable to settle 

 such questions, as scientific questions are settled, 

 we may yet go as far as is possible without desert- 

 ing the objective method, and indicatetheposition 

 which we occupy with reference to them. We 

 have already, in the earlier part of this work, been 

 brought to the conclusion that the phenomenal 

 universe is the manifestation of a Divine Power 

 that cannot be identified with the totality of phe- 

 nomena : ^ we have now to unfold, somewhat 

 more fully, what is meant by this theistic con- 

 clusion. We have, at every fitting opportunity, 



^ This is implied in the statements in vol. i. p. 128, and 

 also in the chapter on ** Anthropomorphism and Cosmism.'* 

 See also vol. ii. pp. 3, 4. 



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