To humanity God is a fact as primitive, an idea as inevitable, a principle as necessary as are the categorical ideas of cause, substance, time, and space to our understanding.

God is proven to us by the conscience prior to any inference of the mind; just as the sun is proven to us by the testimony of the senses prior to all the arguments of physics.

We discover phenomena and laws by observation and experience; only this deeper sense reveals to us existence.

Humanity believes that God is; but, in believing in God, what does it believe?
In a word, what is God?
The nature of this notion of Divinity,--this primitive, universal notion, born in the race,--the human mind has not yet fathomed.

At each step that we take in our investigation of Nature and of causes, the idea of God is extended and exalted; the farther science advances, the more God seems to grow and broaden.