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  "body_markdown": "R. J. Campbell gives a concrete meaning to the terminology: Chesterton names him later in this chapter. In chapter III of *The New Theology* (first published 1907; inspected in Project Gutenberg’s transcription of the New York Macmillan edition, April 1907 reprint), Campbell represents individual selves as expressions of a universal divine consciousness. But he rejects the label *pantheism* when it means an unconscious, necessitated deity, and says individual self-knowledge will survive its expansion into the whole. [Campbell, chapter III, including ‘The Self is God’](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/27500/pg27500-images.html).\n\nChesterton’s corrective ‘or rather’ therefore matters: he is identifying a modern tendency for criticism, not reporting an uncontested classification. The distinction is not merely verbal. A conscious divine whole and a blind necessity need not imply the same account of agency, while the claim that personal knowledge survives unity needs to be tested separately from either label. Campbell is a relevant interlocutor, but the comparison does not establish that this paragraph quotes him directly.",
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