Excerpt from Atheism and Arithmetic, or Mathematical Law in Nature: Arithmetic in Plants and Planets; Mathematics in Musical Science; Number in Vital ActionIs there a God? Who knows, and who can tell? We know that we exist, but what do we know besides? No man hath seen God, and what evidence have we of the existence of an unseen Deity? Men have ransacked the world to find the abode of a Supreme Being, but He ever eludes their search. Neither in Olympus nor Zion, nei ther in the temples of Rome, or Greece, or Persia, or Babylon, or Assyria, or Egypt, has man been able to find the God for whom he has sought. There is no spot on the globe where the human eye can behold its Creator. Is it wonderful, then, that men doubt the existence of one who, if he exists, hides himself from their View?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.