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very profound. I think we are obliged to say, concerning that, 
as concerning electricity—that we do not know much about it. 
Whether, or not, the beginning of matter was the externalization 
of the divine thought, and if so, how that was accomplished, is far 
beyond our powers of conception and, certainly, far beyond our 
powers of discovery. But we must be on our guard against being 
led into the substitution of monotheism for modern Pantheism. 
Monotheism properly understood represents that there is only one 
Divine Being, or Person, or Substance. But according to certain 
modern ideas, if there are other beings besides the Divine, He 
cannot be infinite. It is said there may be other persons but there 
cannot be other beings. There must be an error here, I think, in 
the way in which the term “ infinite’? is understood. I confess I 
have not yet been able to solve the question how a variety and 
multiplicity of personalities should be possible with only one 
Being. I should certainly like that subject more thoroughly 
thrashed out, for it seems to me that it certainly leads to some- 
thing that I am not able to differentiate from Pantheism. 
If there be only one substance, | am at a loss to understand 
how there can be different persons, and it leads us to this—that 
men, angels, demons and God are all of one substance or being, 
and are in some way inseparable from the Being of God. Itleads, 
therefore, to this, that if I am at one time tempted, it is one 
part of God tempting another part of God. If I pray, it is 
one part of God beseeching another part of God for help. There 
are so many contradictions arising in my mind in this matter 
that I should like, if possible, that there should be some further 
discussion of the subject. 
Professor OrcHaRD.—May I ask yon, sir, if you have read the 
accounts of the conference of Zoologists last year in this country 
If so you will find that the testimony of Embryologists was 
decidedly against the theory of evolution. 
Dr. Watter Kipp, F.Z.S.—I think, sir, we have wandered 
rather away from the main subject, the Being of God, into 
by-ways. For the time being the question is;—how modern 
philosophy and thought bear on this profound question of God’s 
existence—I should say more than His existence—His operations 
in the world. 
It is, I think, manifest that the present trend of human thought 
is definitely against the mechanical theories of the universe which 
