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Seraphita

CHAPTER IV
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How?
Where?
We are not now in search of the vanishing point where Matter subtilizes.

If such were the question, I cannot see why He who has, by physical relations, studded with stars at immeasurable distances the heavens which veil Him, may not have created solid substances, nor why you deny Him the faculty of giving a body to thought.
"Thus your invisible moral universe and your visible physical universe are one and the same matter.

We will not separate properties from substances, nor objects from effects.

All that exists, all that presses upon us and overwhelms us from above or from below, before us or in us, all that which our eyes and our minds perceive, all these named and unnamed things compose--in order to fit the problem of Creation to the measure of your logic--a block of finite Matter; but were it infinite, God would still not be its master.

Now, reasoning with your views, dear pastor, no matter in what way God the infinite is concerned with this block of finite Matter, He cannot exist and retain the attributes with which man invests Him.


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