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To return: How is that Power present to the universe?  As a One
Life.  Consider the life in any living thing; it does not reach
only to some fixed point, unable to permeate the entire being;
it is omnipresent. If on this again we are asked How, we appeal
to the character of this power, not subject to quantity but such
that though you divide it mentally for ever you still have the
same power, infinite to the core; in it there is no Matter to
make it grow less and less according to the measured mass.
Conceive it as a power of an ever-fresh infinity, a principle
unfailing, inexhaustible, at no point giving out, brimming over
with its own vitality. If you look to some definite spot and
seek to fasten on some definite thing, you will not find it. The
contrary is your only way; you cannot pass on to where it is
not; you will never halt at a dwindling point where it fails at
last and can no longer give; you will always be able to move
with it- better,