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Excerpt from The Mistakes of Robert G. Ingersoll, on Nature and God Where stands the block of granite, God was; and if not still there, each instant the same, then has He changed to granite? But if granite expresses Him by form, you again come to the ab surdity of making Him divisible, or finite. And if He is displaced by the granite, then He loses so much of His omnipresence, or is constantly diminished by just so much in the extent of His infinity, which is an absurdity just as great as the other. Therefore, we again see that the Intelligence or Spirit called God, to be in all and through all, forever formulating matter in shapes and ways beyond the wildest human fancy, could neither be caused nor con stituted of material form. When a material god, or none at all, is asserted, the philosopher testifies whereof he knows not; like a witness who swears to the non-existence of something, because he never knew it. The little speck that he does know, superficially by cause and effect, is made a sample of the boundless all that he does not know. He makes nature the asylum of his ignorance, in reasoning of God, the same as others make the will of God their refuge, in reasoning of nature. Like the boy who imagined the end of the world and set out to find it, one learns a multitude of things as he travels on in thought, and all egotism is sure to diminish as the universe seems to increase. But when coming forever to the same point in the circle, whereof we try to find the end, why not learn' like the boy, by experience, or by the efforts of humanity for thousands of years, that the object aimed at does not exist as we by inheritance supposed that God has not a formal nature, and that organism, with all its products and refinements, cannot involve, nor pertain to, Absolute Being? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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