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NOTE XLI., page 379.

MODERN ENGLISH PANTHEISM.

Pantheism is advocated by Mr Charles Bray in "Illusion and Delusion; or, Modern Pantheism versus Spiritualism," and by F. W. J., in 'Spiritual Pantheism.' Both tracts are undated, and both were published at the press of the late Mr Scott of Norwood.

In Mr J. Allanson Picton's 'Mystery of Matter' (1873) there is an eloquent essay on what is called "Christian Pantheism ;" and in the 'Sermons' (1875) of the late Rev. Peter S. Menzies of Melbourne there is an eloquent discourse bearing the same title. This socalled "Christian pantheism" is represented as distinct from, and opposed to, the pantheism "which absorbs in a mechanically ruled, eternal universe the free personality of God," and the pantheism "which represents moral good and moral evil as equally agreeable to God, and equally the direct creation of His will."

Much has been written about the pantheism of Carlyle. Some would, perhaps, class Matthew Arnold as a pantheist, in virtue of his faith in a "stream of tendency which makes for righteousness."

Pantheism has been unfortunate in Britain; indeed it has not been presented in a form worthy of discussion. It has displayed itself to rather more advantage in America. See 'Transcendentalism in New England: A History.' By Octavius B. Frothingham (New York, 1876).

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