The Infinite is identical with the Universe."-- "God is and can only be the whole of that which exists.

Let us proclaim it aloud, that the echoes may repeat it, God, the Great Being, is the All, and the All is One.

God is every thing that exists; the Universe, that is the supreme Being.

In it are life eternal, power, wisdom, knowledge, perfect organization, all the qualities, in a word, that are inseparable from the Divinity.

Beyond the universe, or apart from it, there is nothing (_neant_); above the visible world and its laws there is for man--_nullite_." It is deeply humbling to think that, in the light of the nineteenth century, and in the very centre of European civilization, speculations such as these should have found authors to publish, and readers to purchase them.