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Chapter X. Man and God 309 



§ I. Man and his cause — God. His nature as 

 implied in the earlier results, (a) As the first cause,, 

 but only of the phenomenal world, (b) As a factor in the 

 interaction which produces the world, {c) As personal, 

 {d) as finite, because only a finite God can be inferred, 

 and all force impHes resistance. So God is in all, but 

 not all. § 2. The finiteness of God conflicts with reli- 

 gious and philosophic tradition, but may be proved. 



§§ 3-23. The doctrine of the Infinite. §§ 3-7. The 

 religious conception of God — a mass of contradictions. 

 His infinity incompatible with all His other attributes, 

 e.g.^ (i) personality, (2) consciousness, (3) power, (4) 

 wisdom, § 4. (5) Goodness ; either God is evil or 

 everything is good. The failure of the attempts at re- 

 conciliation. § 5. For the Infinite there can be no 

 reality in good and evil, nor meaning in the phenomenal 

 world and its process. § 6. Nor does it admit of 

 Revelation. § 7. The origin and history of the attribute 

 of infinity. Monotheism a compromise between poly- 

 theism and pantheism. But it may be purged of its 

 contradiction by omitting the infinity. 



§§ ^-2 2,. Tlie Infinite in philosophy- — Pantheism. 

 ^8. In pantheism "God" = the universe as a whole. 

 ^ 9. The exceptions to this view, e.g.^ J. S. Mill. § 10. 

 Pantheism a mistake (i) emotionally, because it renders 

 good and evil illusory. i$§ 11, 12. (2) Scientifically, be- 

 cause it destroys the reality of the world-process and 

 the meaning of the world, and ultimately (§ 12) must 

 declare all change illusory. Hence, either we and our 

 world, or the Absolute, an illusion, g 13. The objec- 

 tion that finite minds cannot grasp the Infinite, un- 

 tenable, for if true, they would never have formed the 

 conception of an Infinite. § 14. The attempt to make 

 the Infinite a postulate of feeling. But how can feeling 

 decide delicate questions of metaphysics ? 



i^§ 15-20. (3) The logical basis of Pantheism. §15. 

 The main basis of Pantheism logical— but fallacious. 

 ,§ 16. The words "all" and "whole" ambiguous. A 

 finite totality v. an infinite maximum. §17. The " In- 

 finite " a misnomer because a real whole must be finite. 

 § 18. But anyhow the world is not a real whole. The 

 two ways of conceiving the relation of a whole to its 



