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as he with reverence apostrophizes the Maker of all these wonders : "I behold only the back of the Infinite, Omniscient and Almighty God, where He went forth, but I felt dazed. I tracked the footsteps over the fields of nature,
and I observed in every one — even in those which I could
scarcely descry —an infinite wisdom and power, an incon- ceivable perfection. I saw there how all animals were
maintained by the vegetation, the vegetation by the soil, the soil by the globe, how the globe was turned night and
day around the sun, which gave it life, how the sun with
the planets and fixed stars rolled as on an axle, an incon- ceivable number and infinite space, and were kept up in the void nothingness by the incomprehensible motive
power, all things’ Being, the commander and mainspring
of all causes, the Lord and Master of the world. If we
wish to call Him Fate, we commit no fault, for everything
hangs on His finger ; if we wish to call Him Nature, we
neither commit any fault, because from Him everything
has originated ; if we wish to call Him Providence we also speak rightly, for everything obeys His will and guidance.
He is entirely Sense {Seyism), entirely Sight; entirely Hearing, he is Soul {Anima), He is Spirit {A7iimus), He alone is self sufficient! No human guess can comprehend this form; it is enough that he is an eternal and infinite divine Being, who is neither created nor born, a Being
without whom nothing exists, that is made, a Being who
has founded and built all this, who everywhere shimmers
before our eyes, without our being able to see him, and
who can only be beheld by our thoughts, for such a great
Majesty sits upon such a sacred throne that there no one
is admitted but the soul."
How beautiful all this, how true, how incontrovertible! "The incomprehensible original motive power," as Lin-
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