6. Pantheism has no living, self-conscious, personal God, no loving Father, no watchful Providence, no Hearer of Prayer, no Object of confiding trust, no Redeemer, no Sanctifier, no Comforter: it leaves us with nothing higher than Nature as our portion here, and nothing beyond its eternal vicissitudes as our prospect hereafter.
FOOTNOTES:
[103] Amand Saintes, "Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de Spinoza, Fondateur de l'Exegése et de la Philosophie Modernes."
[104] M. Cousin, "Cours de l'Histoire de la Philosophie," I. 403. See also "Fragmens Philosophiques," Preface, second edition, p. XXVII.; "Nouveaux Fragments," pp. 9, 160.
[105] M. Ad. Franck, "De la Certitude," Preface, p. XXI.
[106] M. A. Javari, "De la Certitude," p. 509.
[107] Amand Saintes, "Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de Spinoza," pp. 208, 210.
[108] Abbé Maret, "Essai sur le Panthéisme dans les Sociétés Modernes," pp. 6, 11, 31. Ibid., "Theodicée Chretiénne," pp. 437, 444, 449.
[109] Mr. Morell's "Historical and Critical View," II. 104, 153.
[110] Pierre Leroux, "De l'Humanité," I. vi. 3, 295.