COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



objective method. Nevertheless, as was hinted 

 at the close of the preceding chapter, this is not 

 the case. Although the construction of a the- 

 ology, or science of Deity, is a task which ex- 

 ceeds the powers of human intelligence, there is 

 nevertheless one supremely important theorem 

 in which science and religion find their perma- 

 nent reconciliation, and by the assertion of which 

 the mind is brought into a positive attitude of 

 faith with reference to the Inscrutable Power 

 manifested in the universe. The outcome of 

 the present argument is not Atheism or Posi- 

 tivism, but a phase of Theism which is higher 

 and purer, because relatively truer, than the 

 anthropomorphic phase defended by theolo- 

 gians. 



This all-important theorem in which science 

 and religion are reconciled is neither more nor 

 less than the theorem which alone gives com- 

 plete expression to the truth that all knowledge 

 is relative. In the first chapter of this work 

 it was elaborately proved that as soon as we 

 attempt to frame any hypothesis whatever con- 

 cerning the Absolute, or that which exists out 

 of relation to our consciousness, we are instantly 

 checkmated by alternative impossibilities of 

 thought, and when we seek to learn why this is 

 so, we are taught by a psychologic analysis that, 

 from the very organization of our minds, and 

 by reason of the very process by which intelli- 

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