[121] Argyll, "Reign of Law," p. 117.
[122] "Essays," 1st Series, p. 206.
[123] "Lectures," vol. ii. p. 406.
[124] "Prolegomena," p. 267-269.
[125] See Locke's "Human Understanding," bk. iv. ch. x., where a similar line of argument is pursued.
[126] Schellen, "Spectrum Analysis," p. 45.
[127] Sir John Herschel, "Natural Philosophy," § 28.
[128] "On Molecules," Lecture at the British Association at Bradford, in Nature, vol. viii. p. 441.
[129] "God is not merely spirit, but He has upon Himself a realistic nature. God did not create the world out of an absolute nothing. The something out of which God created it are his eternal potentialities—not merely logical (merely conceived by God), but at the same time also physical (essentially in God existing) potentialities. In these δυνάμεις God possesses both the something out of which He makes the world, and also the forces, instruments, and means by which He produces it. In this sense it is literally true: All things are of God (Rom. xi. 33). This admission of a supramaterial physis in God—this spiritual realism—furnishes not only an escape from the errors of a lifeless materialism and of an abstract spiritualism, but is the synthesis of the partial truth that is in both."—Bibliotheca Sacra, January, 1873, p. 191.
[130] Lange's Commentary, "Preliminary Essay," p. 126.