ANTHROPOMORPHIC THEISM 



Cosmos, in exchange for the loss of its infinite 

 and inscrutable God, receives an anomalous sov- 

 ereign of mythologic pedigree. 



Nor can the theologian find a ready avenue 

 of escape from these embarrassments in the 

 assumption that there is such a thing as disem- 

 bodied intelligence which is not definable as a 

 correspondence between an organism and its 

 environment, and which is therefore not a pro- 

 duct of evolution. Experience does not afford 

 the data for testing such a hypothesis, and to 

 meet it with denial would accordingly be un- 

 philosophic in the extreme. That there may 

 be such a thing as disembodied orunembodied 

 Spirit will be denied by no one, save by those 

 shallow materialists who fancy that the possibil- 

 ities of existence are measured by the narrow 

 limitations of their petty knowledge. But such 

 an admission can be of no use to the theologian 

 in establishing his teleological hypothesis. For 

 even granting the existence of such unembodied 

 Spirit, the moment we ascribe to it intelligence 

 we are using words to which experience has 

 assigned definite meanings, and we are not at 

 liberty to play fast and loose with these mean- 

 ings. When we speak of " intelligence," we 

 either mean nothing at all, or we mean that 

 which we know as intelligence. But that which 

 we know as intelligence implies a circumscribed 

 and limited form of Being adapting its internal 

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