On the contrary, the harmonized life of reason and spirit is the polestar of Spinoza's philosophy. Human welfare is seldom out of his thought. The infinite variety we experience in this bustling world of change is the expression of divine law, which rules human life as the higher truth rules the lower, as the storm rules the raindrop. Everything in nature is grounded in and comprehended by divine Thought. God has written his all-pervading character in the changeless laws of matter as well as in the laws of mind.
Nothing is the creature of chance or blind caprice.
All things are rationally linked together and related to the ultimate Cause. Our world is a world of law which makes no exceptions and grants no favors, an orderly cosmos in which nothing lives by chance. Everything is to be understood either as the result of its own nature or some higher nature. Now if this be so, Spinoza claims, there must be, beyond the relativity of every finite point of view, one supreme existence that explains and comprehends all the rest. The God idea of Spinoza is more easy for us to grasp because three centuries of science have trained us to see the togetherness of things, the relativity and interdependence of all forms of life and activity.