Conduct And Supernatural Being the Norrisian Prize Essay for the Year 1913
Conduct And Supernatural Being the Norrisian Prize Essay for the Year 1913
Lionel Spencer Thornton
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His book is an attempt to pro- vide a naturalistic basis for conduct without reject- ing the Christian ideals. To this end he finds it necessary to graft the Christian religion, as it were, on to the Natural Man without the interpolation of objective moral law. Before seeking in a super- natural Christianity the alternative to Naturalism, this possibility of a naturalistic basis for Christian ideals must be examined. If it be found that Mr. Chamberlain has avoided the pitfalls discovered in the... preceding chapters, it will then be necessary to contemplate the possibility of a via media, a re- n6 CONDUCT AND THE SUPERNATURAL conciliation of Nature and Morality by some other method than that of subjecting the former to authoritative law. If, on the other hand, all the old landmarks of inconsistency, helplessness, and fatalism reappear, it will be safe to conclude that Mr. Chamberlain has failed in his attempt. It will then be necessary to seek elsewhere, in super- natural religion, the requisite starting point for conduct.
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