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Rh 2. God is revealed as a Race-Preserver; in the dividing of the animal Creation by lines across which union is infertile, and by other lines across which union is unhealthy; and also, and chiefly, in the singular differences introduced into the human body by diversities of culture, of climate, and of circumstance; and in the danger of too sudden interruptions of ancestral habit. God as Race-Preserver was called by the Indians Vishnu; and in each country by some name special to itself. The idea of the Race Preserver is embodied in the name God of Israël (and perhaps also in Jehovah; said by some to be the tribal God of the pre-Mosaic Hebrews).

3. Persons of sensitive temperament and introspective habits recognize the fact of an actual contact between their souls and the Divine, of a personal inspiration of truth which comes to them in some manner not explicable by reference either to impressions on the senses or to intellectual conclusions. And, as any deep sorrow or strong affection increases the capacity for receiving this poetic inspiration, and as it is often increased also by severe physical suffering, God, as inspirer, was thought of as The Purifier by the Fire of Love and Pain; called by the Indians Siva. This idea is represented by the Jewish word Adonai, and by the "Holy Spirit" of our churches.

The Philosophers perceived that terrible dangers were caused by the divided and over-specialized study of Divine action. The worshippers of Brahma, the Creator, lapse into a cold and immoral contemplation of Nature. Nature contains not only beauty, but also what in man would be cruelties and lust; and those who think of God only as Creator, too often become indifferent to