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wisdom in the world, and the material universe before us, is such that 
it a person attempt to deny the personality of God, he is met at once by 
an appea to the proofs of His eternal power and Godhead, invisible 
lings rom the creation of the world being clearly understood by the 
mgs seen. The fiction by which a personal God is got rid of is this: 
,, r® JS a force ’ ' ve ar g™> which may he considered as the cause of all 
the phenomena around us : it is an intelligent force, too, because you 
tlrnbe ?' St T l /'’f " bHnd f01 ' Ce Sh ° Uld haVe being 
he beautiful and orderly universe of which we are cognizant. But here 
the subtle sceptic conies in and says: “ Yes, I grant it is an intelligent 
foice, but it is an unconscious force”: he eliminates the fact of con- 
sciousness. ^ The paper has very well explained that “unconscious 
elhgence is m fact a self-contradictory expression. Personality, like 
personal identity— as I long ago learned from my Bishop Butler— is 
consciousness, and consciousness is personality. The two are only 
different forms of the same thing. If, therefore, you eliminate con. 
vou U T 8 ; r° U f g6t ° f PerS ° nality ’ and if y°u eliminate personality, 
you get rid of consciousness; so that, in spite of the universe we see 
about us, we are, through this sceptical artifice, reduced to the necessity 
of either having no object of worship at all, or else of setting up a sort of 
ideal of our own, which would be represented by nihil ex nihilo. This 
is the difficulty we are reduced to by the course of sceptical argument 
to t ' 13 i m \V ! T thhlk a paper ° f this kind of extreme value 
to this Institute, because it does very logically show the impossibility of 
maintaining the separation of consciousness from intelligence. If we 
wHh th t' if"' FjrSt , CaUSe ° r F ° rCe ’ there lllust be consciousness . 
personality .' ^ RS a Ilecessai T consequence, there must he 
In0N ’ S ;~ I tblnk ’ sir > we are aI1 indebted to Professor Morris for 
helm! r , ° U . r „ f itUtC thiS imp0rtant sub i ect - A great deal more of 
same kind will be wanted. We must remember that this theory of 
an unconscious intelligence at the head of the universe is now agitatimr 
all the mind of Germany. We must not try to persuade ourselves that 
L T y \ ^ ° CCUpied an intelli & ent persistently for the 
last twenty years, is one in which there is absolutely nothing worthy of 
consideration. We should be only exposing ourselves' if we weTto 1st 
'T ” f ° n the general actiou of the human mind on any 
subject. The present paper, however, contains some expressions which 
I am afraid some English readers will find it difficult to appreciate 
especial y as we have not been much accustomed in this count " ' to 
he tudy of metaphysics. In Germany, on the other hand, this study 
is almos natural to them. In England we have even difficulty in 
thinks ! T attentl °. n . Pald t0 mental science. I am grateful to 
think that such an assembly as this has been able to listen so carefully 
