Everyone capable of pronouncing a judgment on any matter must feel how truthfully the personages in the Bible have been drawn." "Yes; the Bible is the Word of God." "I believe that it is, most certainly.

That profound wisdom; that toleration of the weaknesses of men; that sympathy with men, who cannot fathom the mysteries of life, and the struggle for life of all things that love life; that spirit I call God, and I don't think that a better name has been found for it." "It--for _it_?
You think of God as merely a force of nature ?" "Just the contrary.

God is the spirit that lives in warfare with nature.
Great Heavens! isn't that the truth of which the whole Bible is the allegory?
Nature and nature's laws constitute the Devil.

God is the opposing Force.

It is a law of nature to kill off the weak, to crush that which has fallen in the struggle.