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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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324 THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOMBeing, as embraced in the conception, is without distinct ion because<strong>of</strong> the conception's indeterrainateness, so the distinctions <strong>of</strong>things are made to disappear by means <strong>of</strong> the unity which theyhave in this Being. But the root <strong>of</strong> logical Pan theism comes out yetmore definitely, inasmuch as the Klcalics also explained thisOne, which they made to be the All, as the Reason, or theThought, which permeates and holds together the UniversalWhole <strong>of</strong> things as their proper and true essence. This conception,which is the All, is their God."<strong>The</strong> two opposing schools <strong>of</strong> the lonians and Eleatics wereyet accordant in two errors. Neither the one nor the other consideredGod as a Being distinct from the world, nor did theyrecognise substantial distinctions in the things <strong>of</strong> nature. Accordingto the Eleatics there is only one Substance, and all multiplicity<strong>of</strong> things, which appears to the senses, disappears before thethinking reason. According to the lonians there are indeed asmany Substances as there are elements or atoms, but things aredIt if old composition <strong>of</strong> this materialvhich is common to all. Thus likg subtantial is produced or destroyed ^^^^^^^^Spinoza's doctrine is thus summed up by Zeller, Gexchichte

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