Note 45 — LECTURE IV. GOD THE PRINCIPLE OF PRINCIPLES.

There are doubtless many other ways of arriving at God, as we shall successively see; but this is the way of metaphysics. We do not exclude any of the known and accredited proofs of the existence of God; but we begin with that which gives all the others. See further on, part ii., God, the Principle of Beauty, and part iii., God, the Principle of the Good, and the last lecture, which sums up the whole course.