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present themselves to our senses; we know that behind 
these results is an Infinite Reality. With most convincing 
Logic he shows that this Power behind all appearances is 
the necessary groyndwork of all our reasoning; that we 
cannot think without assuming it; that “among our neces- 
sary beliefs this has the highest validity of any.” He calls 
this Reality behind all appearances “ the Unknowable Cause 
of all effects which constitute the knowable world.” He 
calls it that Inscrutable Existence which Science, in the last 
resort, 1s compelled to recognize as unrevealed by its 
deepest analyses of matter, motion, thought and feeling. 
He callsit “the Infinite and Eternal Energy ; the Ultimate 
Existence; the Ultimate Cause from which Humanity has 
proceeded.” “This Inscrutable Existence . . . stands 
towards our general conception of things in substantially 
the same relation as the Creative Power asserted by 
Theology.” “Very likely,” he says, “ there will ever remain 
a need to give shape to that indefinite sense of an Ultimate 
Existence which forms the basis of our Intelligence. We 
shail always be under the necessity of contemplating it as 
some mode of Being.” “ Religion,” he writes in another 
place, “everywhere present as a weft running through the 
warp of human history, expresses some eternal fact.” And 
to return for a moment to the Pantheistic writer, ‘“ The 
Presence of God,” he says, “is the one all-pervading fact 
of life, from which there is no escape; and while, in the 
deepest sense, the nature of Deity is unknowable by finite 
man, nevertheless the ex <igencies of our thinking oblige us 
to symbolize that Nature in some form that has a real 
meaning for us; we cannot symbolize that Nature as in 
anywise Matter; we are bound to symbolize it as in some 
sense Soul.” 
The Nature of Human Belief. 
These words of the most austere exponents of Science 
and Philosophy are to us a great help, because they show us 
that there need be no antagonism between the sternest and 
most abstract of their principles, and those vital beliefs for 
which we are prepared to die. When they say that the 
Infinite and Eternal Power that is manifested in every 
pulsation of the Universe is none other than the manifesta- 
tion of the Living God, but that He is unknowable in the 
scientific sense of knowledge, we reply that sv.ch an answer 
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