WE regard these as two distinct things and say that the first made the
second, much as, till lately, we regarded memory and heredity as two
distinct things having less connection than even that supposed to exist
between God and life. Now, however, that we know heredity to be only a
necessary outcome, development and manifestation of memory—so that, given
such a faculty as memory, the faculty of heredity follows as being
inherent therein and bound to issue from it—in like manner presently,
instead of seeing life as a thing created by God, we shall see God and
life as one thing, there being no life without God nor God without life,
where there is life there is God and where there is God there is life.
They say that God is love, but life and love are co-extensive; for hate
is but a mode of love, as life and death lurk always in one another; and
“God is life” is not far off saying “God is love.” Again, they say,
“Where there is life there is hope,” but hope is of the essence of God,
for it is faith and hope that have underlain all evolution.