But if the one be true, its converse will be true also.

If the universe lives and moves, and has its being in Him, must He not necessarily pervade all things ?' 'Why ?--Forgive my dulness, and explain.' 'Because, if He did not pervade all things, those things which He did not pervade would be as it were interstices in His being, and in so far, without Him.' 'True, but still they would be within His circumference.' 'Well argued.

But yet they would not live in Him, but in themselves.
To live in Him they must be pervaded by His life.

Do you think it possible--do you think it even reverent to affirm that there can be anything within the infinite glory of Deity which has the power of excluding from the space which it occupies that very being from which it draws its worth, and which must have originally pervaded that thing, in order to bestow on it its organisation and its life?
Does He retire after creating, from the spaces which He occupied during creation, reduced to the base necessity of making room for His own universe, and endure the suffering--for the analogy of all material nature tells us that it is suffering--of a foreign body, like a thorn within the flesh, subsisting within His own substance?
Rather believe that His wisdom and splendour, like a subtle and piercing fire, insinuates itself eternally with resistless force through every organised atom, and that were it withdrawn but for an instant from the petal of the meanest flower, gross matter, and the dead chaos from which it was formed, would be all which would remain of its loveliness....
'Yes'-- she went on, after the method of her school, who preferred, like most decaying ones, harangues to dialectic, and synthesis to induction....

'Look at yon lotus-flower, rising like Aphrodite from the wave in which it has slept throughout the night, and saluting, with bending swan-neck, that sun which it will follow lovingly around the sky.