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CHAPTER III
UNITY WITH GOD, MAN, AND NATURE
“In Him we live, and move, and have our being.”
Plainly such a spirit as I have been
trying to describe is in unity with God,
Man, and Nature. Nothing in all the
consequences of religion is simpler or
clearer than this. Nothing, again,
more easily tempts us to draw out
particular conclusions in which we may
lose our way.
We are spirits, and our life is one with that of the Spirit which is the whole and the good. Then, surely, we are eternal; and, one way or another, your religion gives you this conviction. Now this is no matter for argument, or for trying to take away from you what
