" This is the glory, — that in all conceived,
Or felt or known, I recognize a mind
Not mine but like mine, — for the double joy, —
Making all things for me and me for Him." "

That which is finite is hemmed in by other things,
as well as determined by them ; but the infinite is
all-inclusive. There exists for it no other thing to
limit or determine it. There is nothing finally alien
or foreign to reason. Freedom and infinitude,
self-determination and absoluteness, imply each
other. In so far as man is free, he is lifted
above the finite. It was God's plan to make man
on His own image : —

"To create man and then leave him
Able, His own word saith, to grieve Him,
But able to glorify Him too,
As a mere machine could never do.
That prayed or praised, all unaware

^Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau. ^Ibid.
340 ROBERT BROWNING

Of its fitness for aught but praise or prayer,
Made perfect as a thing of course." ,^

Man must find his law within himself, be the source
of his own activity, not passive or receptive, but
outgoing and effective.
