ALL 'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD 



or soar to the heavens or dive to the depths, and you 

 will not find him there. Infinite and eternal' power 

 you find, but not the God of love and mercy that 

 the moral nature craves. Only in the human heart 

 do you find this God. Hence our fathers looked 

 upon man as something entirely apart from nature ; 

 he was not the result of the cosmic process, but a 

 special creation, endowed with special powers, and 

 given an immortal soul, which was denied to all 

 other creatures. 



It is only by regarding man as a part of nature, 

 as the outcome of the same vital forces underfoot 

 and overhead that the plants and the animals are, 

 that we can find God in the world. 



When the intellect from its height of observation 

 surveys man and the world, it sees that he is neces- 

 sarily a part of nature, and that all he has done and 

 thought and suffered, all his arts and religions and 

 literatures, all his dreams and visions and aspira- 

 tions, came out of the earth, were evolved through 

 the working of natural or cosmic laws, because the 

 reasoning mind cannot admit of the arbitrary intro- 

 duction of any force or influence from without. The 

 chain of cause and effect is never broken, and all 

 the noble and godlike traits of man, all his love 

 and heroism and self-denial, as well as all his baser 

 animal traits — his hates, his revenges, his cruelty, 

 his lusts, his meannesses of one kind or another — 

 are not from some extraneous source, are not for- 

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