COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



these must remain unanswered. Meanwhile we 

 may rest assured that, could we solve them all, 

 the state of the case would not be essentially- 

 altered. Our conception might be relatively far 

 loftier, but from the absolute point of view it 

 would be equally beneath the Reality. We are 

 therefore forced to conclude that the process 

 of deanthropomorphization which has from the 

 first characterized the history of philosophic de- 

 velopment must still continue to go on ; until 

 the Intelligent Will postulated by the modern 

 theologian shall have shared the fate of the ear- 

 lier and still more imperfect symbols whereby 

 finite man has vainly tried to realize that which 

 must ever transcend his powers of conception. 



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