All descriptions of the creating or sustaining principle in things must be metaphorical, because they must be verbal.

Thus the pantheist is forced to speak of God _in_ all things as if he were in a box.

Thus the evolutionist has, in his very name, the idea of being unrolled like a carpet.

All terms, religious and irreligious, are open to this charge.

The only question is whether all terms are useless, or whether one can, with such a phrase, cover a distinct _idea_ about the origin of things.