COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



be the reproach which the adherents of a lower 

 creed endeavour to cast upon those of a higher 

 one. The less anthropomorphic the symbol by 

 which Deity is represented, the less readily im- 

 aginable it is as something which can be seen, or 

 heard, or prayed to, the less existent does it ap- 

 pear. And as we proceed to take away, one by 

 one, the attributes which limit Deity, and enable 

 it to be classified, we seem, no doubt, to be grad- 

 ually destroying it altogether. Nevertheless, to 

 him who has thus far intelligently followed this 

 exposition, it will not be necessary to demon- 

 strate that the symbolization of Deity indicated 

 by the profoundest scientific analysis of to-day 

 is as practically real as the symbolization which 

 has resulted from the attempts of antiquity to 

 perform such an analysis, and is in every way 

 more satisfactory alike to head and heart. To 

 him the most refined anthropomorphism to be 

 met with in current theological treatises will no 

 doubt seem as unsatisfactory as the anthropo- 

 morphism of orthodox "revivalists" must seem 

 to Mr. Hutton or Mr. Martineau.^ 



Indeed there are few philosophical terms 

 which have more thoroughly brought out the 

 inveterate tendency of men to mistake the coun- 

 ters of thought for its hard money than this 

 term " Unknowable." Alike from Idealists and 

 Positivists, from theologians of every school 

 * [See Introduction, § 42.] 



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