2o6 SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY 



to us, transcends human conception, is an unknown and 

 unknowable power which we are obliged to recognise 

 as without limit in space, and without beginning or end 

 in timer 



Evolution and dissolution are merely the systole 

 and diastole of the Heart of God. 



And we ? 



We are the tides, fast and slow, 



Bitter and sweet ; 

 We are the tides that come and go. 



Ebb and flow. 



Throb and beat. 

 In the Godhead's every vein. 



Hands and feet 



And body and brain. 



The creed may be Pantheism : what creed dare 

 be other than Pantheistic } " If I ascend up into 

 heaven, Thou art there ; if I make my bed in hell, 

 behold. Thou art there. If I take the wings of 

 the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of 

 the sea ; even there shall Thy hand lead me, and 

 Thy right hand shall hold me." And Pantheism 

 may be as personal as love, and as full of emo- 

 tional value as the Universe it dematerialises and 

 spiritualises. 



" Mortals," said Xenophanes of Colophon, 

 " think that the gods are born as they are, and 

 have senses, and a voice and body like their own. 

 So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub- 



