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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the expression simply denotes the observed fixity of a relation between various material forces or bodies, according to which the same effect follows invariably the same cause, or the same consequent attends upon the same antecedent. Such laws we understand to be no proper originating Cause of existence or of action in the Universe: the conception is still imperatively demanded of an actual, eternal Substance or Intelligence, spring of all causality, itself uncaused. Whether such primal Cause be a conscious or unconscious power, the general sense of mankind, on a survey of the apparent numberless marks of design in the universe, is not slow to determine. It demands, and will ever demand, as the only solution of the problem which is not cumbered with endless absurdities, an Intelligent Agent and Framer. Pantheism As respects Pantheism, I have but a few remarks to offer; not, indeed, as being unmindful of the imposing figure it makes as a system, whether regarded on the side of the numerical strength of such as adopt it either professedly or apparently, or in relation to the powerful intellects of not a fewof its adherents, but as compelled to view it, possibly through some mental defect of my own, in much the same light as Polytheism or the Gnostic emanation of aeons, viz., as a system so inherently opposed to first principles of reason and the constraints of conscience, so palpably the offspring of the imagination, and so arbitrarily and poetically projected from a shadowy basis, that it has ever failed to raise in my mind even a momentary suspicion that it might be the way of truth, which I want to know. The hypothesis of a God who is not separate from nature and acts not upon nature from without, being, so to speak, the soul of nature, which is an emanation from Him; a Go...

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