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one ; this material universe may then become the 

 living garment of God ; gross matter may be 

 regarded as a mere inference, a mode of appre- 

 hending an idealistic cosmic reality, in which we 

 live and move and have our being ; the whole of 

 existence can become infused and suffused with 

 immanent Deity." 



The greatest achievement of modern science has 

 been its analysis of matter into force — its proof 

 that when the qualities of matter, colour, heat, 

 weight, which are admitted to be subjective, are 

 removed, there is nothing left save the immaterial 

 activating cause which the mind demands, and 

 which must be at least as multipotent as the 

 multiplicity of its products. Schelling declares : 

 " It is merely a delusion of the imagination that 

 after man has stripped an object of all its predicates, 

 yet something, he knows not what, remains be- 

 hind." Nothing remains behind except the idea 

 cause^ and this idea is exactly of the same nature as 

 the idea of a fellow-being's personality. 



The great Berkeley taught this long ago. 

 " If," he writes, " we follow the light of reason, 

 we shall, from the constant uniform method of our 

 sensations, collect the goodness and wisdom of the 

 Spirit who excites them in our minds ; but this is 

 all that I can see reasonably concluded from thence. 

 To me, I say, it is evident that the being of a 



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