The argument for the being of a God in its completeness is at once Ontological and Cosmological, Etiological and Teleological. It is in the concurrence and synthesis of these separate but harmonious lines of proof that we have an unanswerable demonstration. For ourselves, we are convinced, with Neitzsch, that the Ontological proof is first and last; they who seek to invalidate this cut the ground from under all the rest.] [Footnote 116: Herschel's "Outlines of Astronomy," p. 511.] [Footnote 117: _North American Review_, October, 1864, p. 428.] [Footnote 118: "By finite we generally mean that which is within reach, or may be brought within reach of our senses.... The powers, therefore, of our senses and mind place the limit to the finite, but those magnitudes which severally transcend these limits, by reason of their being too great or too small, we call _infinite_ and _infinitesimal_."--Price, "Infinitesimal Calculus," vol. i. pp. 12, 13.] [Footnote 119: Martineau, "Essays," 1st Series, p. 161.] [Footnote 120: Hamilton, "Metaphysics," vol. ii. p. 539.] [Footnote 121: Argyll, "Reign of Law," p. 117.] [Footnote 122: "Essays," 1st Series, p. 206.] [Footnote 123: "Lectures," vol. ii. p. 406.] [Footnote 124: "Prolegomena," p. 267-269.] [Footnote 125: See Locke's "Human Understanding," bk. iv. ch. x., where a similar line of argument is pursued.] [Footnote 126: Schellen, "Spectrum Analysis," p. 45.] [Footnote 127: Sir John Herschel, "Natural Philosophy," § 28.] [Footnote 128: "On Molecules," Lecture at the British Association at Bradford, in _Nature_, vol. viii. p. 441.] [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 130: Lange's Commentary, "Preliminary Essay," p. 126.] [Footnote 131: See Whewell's "History of Scientific Ideas," vol. ii. p. 287.] [Footnote 132: Ch. XXXIV.] [Footnote 133: Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences," vol. ii. p. 593.] [Footnote 134: Spencer, "First Principles," p. 4.] [Footnote 135: Spencer, "First Principles," p. 43.] [Footnote 136: "Fragments of Science," p. 12.] [Footnote 137: Inaugural Address before the British Association of Science, in _Nature_, vol. iv. p. 269.]