The growth of the sciences made man again a mere tool of laws and methods, but it considered matter as superior to mind, mind being entirely dependent upon impressions received from matter.

The question continually recurs--which is the high, which is the low?
Shall nature triumph over spirit, or spirit over nature?
Pantheism replies to the question by denying that there is anything high as distinguished from the low.

There is but one; and that one--the whole universe--is God.

There is no evil in the world, says pantheism, everything is good--if we could understand things as they really are we should find no oppositions in the universe, and no contradictions in the nature of things.

The world as it is, is the best of all possible worlds--there is perfect harmony, though we fail to appreciate it.