Being, or the soul, is one by its nature.

Being, or the soul, is God by its nature."-- "Socrates has proved our eternity and the divinity of our nature."[110] The next specimen is a singular but very instructive one.

It is derived from the treatise of M.Crousse, who holds that "intelligence is a property or an effect of matter;" "that the world is a great body, which has sense, spirit, and reason;" that "matter, in appearance the most cold and insensible, is in reality animated, and capable of engendering thought." It might be amusing, were it not melancholy, to refer to one of his proofs of this position: "Une horologe mesure le temps; certes, c'est la un effet intellectuel produit par une cause physique!"[111] His grand principle is the doctrine of what he calls "Unisubstancisme," and it is applied equally to the nature of God and the soul of man.

God is admitted, but it is the God of Pantheism,--Nature, including matter and mind, but excluding any higher power.

"God is the self-existent Being, which includes all, and beyond which no other can be imagined.