80 THE VEN. ARCHDEACON W. MACDONALD SINCLAIR, D.D., ON 
phoses as heat, light, actinism, magnetism, electricity. 
Crossing one another in every imaginable way, as if all 
space were crowded with a mesh-work of nerve threads, 
these motions go on for ever in a harmony that nothng 
disturbs. . . . It means that the Universe, as a whole, 
is thrilling in every fibre with Life . . . allis quivering 
with Energy. From particle to particle without cessation 
the movement passes on.” 
Such language, I say, brings us not indeed to God Himself, 
but very near to His vesture. The unity of Matter leads us 
to think of the Divine Unity of Mind. Weseem to approach 
to the very shadow of the Divine Being, to feel His omni- 
potent hand, to be encompassed by the externalizatien of 
His omnipresent Thought. We are reminded of the power- 
ful way in which Tennyson converted Pantheism into Theistic 
thought : 
3. The Higher Pantheism turned by Tennyson 
to Theism. 
““The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains, 
Are not these, O Soul, the vision of Him who reigns ? 
Earth, these solid stars, this weight of body and limb, 
Are they not sign and symbol of thy division from Him ? 
Dark is the world to thee : thyself art the reason why : 
For is He not all but that which has power to feel ‘I am I’? 
Glory about thee, without thee ; and thou fulfillest thy doom, 
Making Him broken gleam, and a stifled splendour and gloom. 
Speak to Him thou, for He hears, and Spirit with spirit can meet— 
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.” 
4. Suggestions from Herbert Spencer. 
Valuable as are to us as a step the meditations of a writer 
who seems unable to escape from the hampering ties of 
Pantheism,* still more welcome are the frank admissions of 
one who declares himself to be an Agnostic. The most 
conspicuous of modern Agnostics, Herbert Spencer, insists, 
like Tennyson, that this force which is thus revealed to us 
is not self-existent; that it does not set itself in motion ; 
that it is caused; and that behind all is the unknowable 
Cause. We know, not only the results of Foree which 
* Le, Fiske. 
