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imbued with the true spirit of enquiry, on the contrary, begins by owning allegiance to the Principle of Life from the very commencement, and thus avoids most of the laborious uphill work of the materialist. The one works in the light of Truth, while the other discards this method, and has necessarily to grope in the darkness of doubt and uncertainty. But the culmination or the crowning point of both the Realistic and the Idealistic philosophy, when carried to the ultimate issue, is the same, namely, "Life is God, and I am HE; or, as the Bible says, "I have said, ye are gods.'
THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
First Cause.
We may now take a bird's eye view of the different theories of creation which we have analyzed in the course of our investigation. The following tables will not only show, at a glance, the position and merit of each theory, but will also render the task of comparison
an easy one.
(A)-The Theistic account.
God (a spirit).
First Cause.
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God (a spirit).
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(B)--The Hindu theory.
Nature of the world-process.
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Creation by the word of command of a real material universe, or a making of something out of nothing.
Nature of the world-process.
John X: 34.
Projection and final re-absorption of a real universe, in imitation of a spider's web.
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