The important discrimination, as he
saw it, was not between material and immaterial — a
distinction with which he
never dealt — but between moral and immoral.
Let us
never forget that precisely out of reverence for the Deity he was ignorant, that, so far as a pagan could be, he kept watch as a judge on the border between God / and man, watching out to
see that the deep gulf of qualitative
distinction be firmly fixed between them, between God / and man, that God / and man may not in a way, philosophice, poetice, etc., coalesce into one.