But this, on positive principles, must be feeling only.

It means absolutely nothing: it can have no objective fact that corresponds to it.

It is an illusion, a pathetic fallacy.

And to say that the heavens with their stars declare to us anything high or holy, is no more rational than to say that Brighton does, which itself, seen at night from the sea, is a long braid of stars descended upon the wide horizon.

All that the study of nature, all that the love of truth, can do for the positivist is not to guide him to any communion with a vaster power, but to show him that no such communion is possible.