so. They clo not place their universe upon this, the strong 
foundation, namely the greatest good, but seek for some Atlas 
stronger still, to bear it up upon his shoulders.” 
This “ strong foundation,” which Socrates vainly sought 
for, is realized in the Jewish scriptures, in the revelation 
which God makes of Himself to Moses, and through him to 
His favoured nation, “ I am that I am.” Which, according to 
the laws of the Hebrew language, is also, “ I shall be that 
which I am,” or “ I am that which I shall be,” or, as for- 
mulated in the name which we know not how to pronounce, 
but which we call Jehovah, 6 u>v kcu 6 »/ v kcu 6 ef}\6/j.£voC) 
well rendered in French by I’Eternel. 
We have, then, an eternal and unchangeable Being, in whom 
the Archetypal ideas are, so to speak, inherent. It is also 
essential to our conception of Him, that He has power to em- 
body his ideas in creation, and to maintain them in existence 
when so embodied. 
Thus speaks Sir Isaac Newton in his “ creed,” given us in 
the Gentleman’s Magazine, in 1731 : — “This Being governs 
all things, not as a soul of the world, but as Lord of the uni- 
verse, and upon account of his Dominion, he is styled Lord 
God, supreme over all. The supreme God is an eternal, in- 
finite, absolutely perfect Being. Bat a Being, how perfect 
soever, without dominion is no Lord God. The term God very 
frequently signifies Lord, but every lord is not God. The 
dominion of a spiritual Being constitutes him God ; true domi- 
nion, true God ; supreme dominion, supreme God ; imaginary 
dominion, imaginary God.* He is not eternity, and infinity, 
but eternal and infinite. He is not duration and space, but has 
duration of existence, and is present ; by existing always and 
everywhere He constitutes duration and space, eternity and 
infinity. Since every part of space and every individual 
moment of duration is everywhere certainty, the maker and 
Lord of all things cannot be said to be in no time, and in no 
space. He is omnipresent, not by His power only, but in His 
very substance, for power cannot subsist without substance. 
God is not at all affected by the motions of bodies, neither 
do they find any resistance from his Omnipresence. He 
necessarily exists, and by the same necessity He exists always 
and everywhere. Whence also it follows, that He is all 
similar — all eye — all ear — all brain — all arm — all sensation — 
all understanding — all active power ; but this not in a human 
* [E. g. Darwin’s Natural Selection.] 
