COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



cognizes no antagonism between our duty as in- 

 quirers and our duty as worshippers. He will 

 admit no such inherent and incurable vicious- 

 ness in the constitution of things as is postulated 

 by the anthropomorphic hypothesis. To him 

 no part of the world is godless. He does not 

 rest content with the conception of " an absen- 

 tee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, 

 at the outside of his universe, and ' seeing it 

 go;'" for he has learned, with Carlyle, "that 

 this fair universe, were it in the meanest pro- 

 vince thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City 

 of God ; that through every star, through every 

 grass blade, and most through every living soul, 

 the glory of a present God still beams." ^ 



From the anthropomorphic point of view 

 it will quite naturally be urged in objection, 

 that this apparently desirable result is reached 

 through the degradation of Deity from an " in- 

 telligent personality " into a " blind force," and 

 is therefore in reality an undesirable and perhaps 

 even quasi atheistic result. To the theologian 

 the stripping off the anthropomorphic vest- 

 ments with which men have sought to render 

 the Infinite representable in imagination, always 

 means the leaving of nothing but " blind force " 

 as a residuum. Trained upon the subjective 

 method, and habitually applying to all propo- 



^ Sartor Resartus, Book II. chap. vii. ; Book III. chap, 

 viii. 



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