Breaking contact with the hampering details of earth, it associates him with a power which gives fulness and tone to his existence, but which he can neither analyse nor comprehend._' This, Dr.Tyndall tells us, is the only rational statement of the fact of that '_divine communion_,' whose nature is '_simply distorted and desecrated_' by the unwarranted assumptions of theism.
Now let us try to consider accurately what Dr.Tyndall's statement means.

Knowledge of Nature, he says, associates him with Nature.

It withdraws him from '_the hampering details of earth_,' and enables the individual human being to have communion with a something that is beyond humanity.

But what is communion?
It is a word with no meaning at all save as referring to conscious beings.

There could be no communion between two corpses; nor, again, between a corpse and a living man.