It is a “pampathy” or all-feeling which produces in every individual a deep-felt longing to be at one with the whole universe of which each is a part.¹ ¹ For a more complete definition of religion in its several phases see Carus’s Dawn of a New Era, pp. 96–97.
This pampathy in its historical development under definite conditions assumes a definite form, and so religion leads necessarily and naturally to church life and church formation, with dogmas and regulations of conduct.
No doubt, God is all that Dr. Carus tells us, but He is very much more. But who but perhaps a mathematician could worship a ‘Formative Omnipresence’ of the ‘Supreme Norm of Existence,’ even with the aid of Clifford’s ‘cosmic emotion’? ‘Pampathy,’ but surely ‘Pampathy’ would be better, does not help us. One might as easily pray to the ‘cosmic order,’ and throw ourselves on its tender mercies.
