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" This explanation tends to destroy the sim plicity of thinking beings; for by simplicity has always been understood the absolute wanting of all parts and not the absence of this or that kind of parts. Inseparability does not destroy the existence of parts ; it merely asserts the force of cohesion. 70 It is also to be feared that this doctrine opens the door to pantheism. It was even objected to Clarke that it made God the soul of the world, and although he defended himself from this charge, there still remains an objection which was not proposed to him, and which is a very serious one. If we say that God is space, or that space is a prop erty of God, what hinders our saying that God is the world, or that the world is a property of God? The world is extended ; but so is space. prev next |