Dualism, the widest sense, breaks up the universe into two entirely distinct substances - the material world and an immaterial God, who is represented to be its creator, sustainer and ruler. Monism, on the contrary . Pantheism teaches that God and the world are one. The idea of God is identical with that of nature or substance . . . In pantheism God, as an intramundane being, is everywhere identical with nature itself, and is operative within the world as force or energy . . .
Pantheism is the world system of the modern scientist.
The monistic idea of God . God is everywhere . . . We might, therefore, represent God as the infinite sum of all natural forces, the sum of all atomic forces and all ether-vibrations. Atheism affirms that there are no gods or goddesses, assuming that god means a personal, extramundane entity. Our own naturalistic conception of the psychic activity sees in it a group of vital phenomena which are dependent on a definite material substrate. . . .