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strongly m the poet who voiced so oftenthe
restlessmentahtyof hisage:-
Thesun,themoon, the stars,theseas,the hills, and
theplains-Are not these. O Soul, the Vision of Him who
reigns?...
Earth,thesesolidstars,thisweightofbodyandlimb,Are they not sign and symbolof thydivision from
Him?
Darkistheworldtothee: thyselfartthereasonwhy
;ForisHenotallbutthou,thathastpowertofeel" 1
amI"?...
Speak to Him, thou,for He hears,and Spiritwith
Spiritcanmeet-CloserIS Hethan breathing,andnearer thanhands
andfeet.(Tennyson's"Works,"p.277. KeganPaul&Co.ed.)
In allWestern forms of Pantheism there is
a common lack- the lack of the great ladder
of beings stretching from the grain of dust tothe loftiest spirit. All apparently end with
man,andseein him the highest expressionof
God, while man, feeling his own littleness in
the immensity of the God-pervaded universe,
stretches out groping hands to find his elder
brothers, the outcome of evolution in past
eternities, in other realms of space. If none
suchexist,if an immeasurable pasthasbrought