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indestructible sense of responsibility terminates. 

 The truth of this doctrine, therefore, rests not 

 only on the authority of the Scriptures, but on 

 the very constitution of our nature. The Bi- 

 ble has little charity for those who reject it. 

 It pronounces them to be either derationalized 

 or demoralized, or both. 



The Pantheistic Theory. 

 This has been one of the most widely dif- 

 fused and persistent forms of human thought 

 on this whole subject. It has been for thou- 

 sands of years not only the philosophy, but the 

 religion of India, and, to a great extent, of 

 China. It underlies all the forms of Greek 

 philosophy. It crept into the Church, con- 

 cealed under the disguise of Scriptural termi- 

 nology, in the form of Neo-Platonism. It was 

 constantly reappearing during the Middle Ages, 

 sometimes in a philosophical, and sometimes a 

 mystical form. It was revived by Spinoza in 

 the seventeenth century, and subsequently be- 

 came dominant in the philosophy and literature 

 of Europe. It is coming up again. Some dis- 

 tinguished naturalists are swinging round from 

 one pole to the opposite ; from saying there is 

 no God, to teaching that everything is God. 



