...last we are led, in the words of Spencer, to recognize the "one absolute certainty that he [man] is ever in the presence of an infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed." However just this conclusion may be, these facts serve to show that the problem of causation has deeper...

...a late essay on " Religion, a Retrospect and Prospect," * Mr. Herbert Spencer tells us that " amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the...one absolute certainty, that we are ever in • The Nineteenth Century. Vol. XV. presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed."...

...is well formulated in a phrase of Herbert Spencer's which has often been quoted in The Outlook : " We are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." This later conception assumes that there are no forces, there is only one Infinite and Eternal Force ; that...

...Eternal, there has grown up an agnosticism which declares the Eternal to be the Unknowable. It affirms that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, but if we ask, What is its nature ? replies, Impossible to tell. Is it a good Energy or a bad Energy...

...had better stop talking about them; sometimes purely intellectual, like that of Herbert Spencer — we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, but It is unknown and unknowable; sometimes pathetic, like that of Professor Clifford — the image...

...religion? Let the religion of the future be stated in that distinguished writer's own words. "Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the...there will remain the one absolute certainty that he [man] is ever in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." This,...

...throws little or no light. So the scientific process makes it as absolutely certain as anything can be that " we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." But it is far from making certain what is the nature of this Energy, which is scientifically as unknowable...

...existence everywhere manifested, to which [man] can neither find nor conceive either beginning or end. Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there wID remain the one absolute certainty, that he la ever In presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy...

...passes inevitably from the world to God. Thus even the Agnostic is led to maintain that we are " ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed." incompatible views of the universe. In modern philosophy when speculation ascends from the world to...

...Existence everywhere manifested, to which he can neither find nor conceive either beginning or end. Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the...there will remain the one absolute certainty, that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed. PART VII....