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with Mr. Spencer in this matter, will doubtless 

 heartily, each for himself, join the German 

 philosopher Jacobi, in saying, " I confess to 

 Anthropomorphism inseparable from the con- 

 viction that man bears the image of God ; and 

 maintain that besides this Anthropomorphism, 

 which has always been called Theism, is noth- 

 ing but Atheism or Fetichism." : 



Mr. Spencer, therefore, in accounting for the 

 origin of the universe and all its phenomena, 

 physical, vital, and mental, rejects Theism, or 

 the doctrine of a personal God, who is extra- 

 mundane as well as antemundane, the creator 

 and governor of all things ; he rejects Panthe- 

 ism, which makes the finite the existence-form 

 of the Infinite ; he rejects Atheism, which he 

 understands to be the doctrine of the eternity 

 and self-existence of matter and force. He 

 contents himself with saying we must acknowl- 

 edge the reality of an unknown something 

 which is the cause of all things, — the noume- 

 non of all phenomena. " If science and religion 

 are to be reconciled, the basis of the reconcilia- 

 tion must be this deepest, widest, and most cer- 

 tain of all facts, — that the Power which the 



1 Von den gottlichen Dingen, Werke, III. pp. 422, 425. Leipzig, 

 1816. 



