rsonality, but between Personality and something higher. 'Is it not
just possible that there is a mode of being as much transcending
Intelligence and Will as these transcend mechanical motion?'[3] The
description of Personality given by the author of the _Riddle of the
Universe_ would be repudiated by every educated Christian. 'The
monistic idea of God, which alone is compatible with our present
knowledge of nature, recognises the divine spirit in all things. It
can never recognise in God a "personal being," or, in other words, an
individual of limited extension in space, or even of human form. God
is everywhere.'[4] That conclusion,--we {72} are not concerned with
the steps by which the conclusion is reached,--does not strike one as a
modern discovery. In what authoritative statement of Christian
doctrine God is defined as _not_ being everywhere, or 'an individual of
limited extension in space, or even of human form,' we are unaware.
There is apparent misunderstanding in the supposition that we have to
take our choice between God as entirely severed from the world, and God
existing in the world. God, it is asserted in current phraseology,
cannot be both Immanent and Transcendent; He cannot be both in the
world and above it. 'In Theism,' so Haeckel draws out the comparison,
'God is opposed to Nature as an extra-mundane being, as creating and
sustaining the world, and acting upon it from without, while in
Pantheism God, as an intra-mundane being, is everywhere identical with
Nature itself, and is operative within the world as "force" or {73}
"energy."'[5] If there is no juggling with words here, it can hardly
be juggling with words to point out that so far as 'space' goes, an
intra-mundane being, rather than an extra-mundane, is likely to be
'limited in extension.'

III

The imagination that the Christian God is a Personality like ourselves,
and is to be found only above and beyond the world, finds perhaps its
strangest expression in some of the writings of that ardent lover of
Nature, the late Richard Jefferies. 'I cease,' so he writes in _The
Story of my Heart_, 'to look for traces of the Deity in life, because
no such traces exist. I conclude that there is an existence, a
something higher than soul, higher, better, and more perfect than
deity. Earnestly I pray to find this something better than a god.
There is something superior, higher, more good. For this I search,
labour, {74} think, and pray....