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nosed ; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue 

 eyes." 



But to Science " there is one God, the greatest 

 among gods and men, unlike mortals both in mind 

 and body." 



/ The God of Science speaks in the thunder and 

 smiles in the sunshine. He is so great that the 

 stars eddy round his feet not ankle-high, yet so 

 loving that He makes roses and sunsets for the 

 human heart. » 



All ideas give rise to this final, integrating, 

 emotional idea — God. Nor is the God an un- 

 known God. If the force of Nature were seen 

 as oil-engines or watches, our reason would give 

 birth to a God like a man with engineering and 

 mechanical talents. But the God that Science 

 knows is not born of the reason, but is a direct 

 product of the Consciousness, and coloured with 

 all the emotional value of the universe which 

 causes the Idea. Even as certain forces result in 

 the concept matter, so the result of all the forces 

 which constitute conscious life result in the 

 concept God. The substance of the Schoolmen, 

 the noumenon, the Ding an sich of the German 

 Philosophers, the points of force of Boscovitch, the 

 ether of the modern physicist, can also be conceived 



