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literary skill), strut upon the stage, the real student of science 
uncovers his head with a sense of awe and mystery, and can 
share the humility of Lessing, when in his Streitschriften he 
writes: “If God should hold in His right hand all truth, and in 
His left hand the ever active desire to seek for truth though 
the condition be of perpetual error, I would humbly ask for the 
contents of the left hand saying, ‘ Father, give me this; pure 
truth is only for Thee.’ ” 
VII. Human LIFE. 
The physical laws which come under “the law of universal 
causation ”* reveal to the believing man of science one phase of 
the Divine Immanence, and Life in its manifold manifestations 
reveals to us another phase. In the latter phase we see the 
more direct revelaticn of the Divine Transcendence which is 
behind all phenomena. There is yet a third phase within our 
ken of the Divine Immanence; and that is to be found and 
observed, and inferences drawn from it, in all that region of 
consciousness, which has to do with reasoned thought and 
reflection, with those powers of the human mind by which 
scientific investigation is carried on, with the affections and 
instincts of the soul, and in that still higher plane of conscious- 
ness which belongs to the realm of spirit and to the faculty of 
worship. It is here surely that our perceptive faculties realize 
most directly the Divine Transcendence. For, as life is not the 
same in kind as gravitation or chemical affinity or electric force, 
nor the sum of all these together, there is manifestly some- 
thing of another kind or order included in it; and in that 
something we recognize another phase of Creative Will and 
Thought. Just so in the spiritual nature of man there is a 
something superadded which is no part or factor of mere 
physical life ; and in that too we can recognize a third and higher 
phase of Creative Will and Thought. And we can only 
conceive of the spiritual nature of God and His Fatherhood, 
through what is highest and best in ourselves, as Christ 
Himself teaches us. 
The late Aubrey Moore, a keen student, in his brilliant essay 
in Lux Mundi, on “the Christian doctrine of God,’ has well 
remarked—* We do not read our full selves into the lower 
world [of being], because we are higher than it; we do not 
transfer [in thought] to God all that belongs to our own self- 
* See J.S. Mill, Logic, B. iii, ¢. 5. 
