: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the
specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a
specific and
observable difference in the
behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's
specific causality] must take the form of
observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).