Chapter 5 - The Energy Back of Thought

Nature lies in the lap of an Intelligence and Life, which, without any apparent effort on Its own part, provides both seedtime and harvest. How can we doubt that the power back of things is adequate and is a Unity?
Originality, spontaneity and volition crop out at every point in nature; we can see but one reasonable conclusion, that back of everything—coordinating everything—is a Unitary Power, all-knowing, all-wise, all-good, all-beautiful, absolute, birthless, deathless and changeless.
Our popular religions, with their half-gods, are but different resting places of the mind—inns where the

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