To attach a clear and definite meaning to the Cartesian doctrine of God, to show how much of it comes from the Christian theology and how much from the logic of idealism, how far the conception of a personal being as creator and preserver mingles with the pantheistic conception of an infinite and perfect something which is all in all, would be to go beyond Descartes and to ask for a solution of difficulties of which he was 1 Ouvres, vi.
He was also the god of music, the special preserver of poets, and to him the lyre was sacred.
But, while he caused storms and shipwrecks, he could also send favouring winds; hence he was known as Soler, " the preserver."
Soon after the first Bull Run disaster he was summoned to Washington, and the Union hailed him as chieftain and preserver.
Even the churches which trace their descent from Calvin's work and faith no longer hold in their entirety his views on the magistrate as the preserver of church purity, the utter depravity of human nature, the non-human character of the Bible, the dealing of God with man.
