Morality As a Religion An Exposition of Some First Principles
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What wonder, when this advice is followed out to the letter, that we are overwhelmed with assurances that prayers have been answered, when a man is appointed to a sinecure or has obtained a life- pension ? What one would like to ask is this : Do these credulous people suppose that the event would have been otherwise, had the young candidate not prayed ? Do they suppose that the Deity would positively have snatched away the prize at the last moment, and given it to another, simply because he had... not been consulted in the matter ? If they do, then we must confess our ideals of the Divine are very different from theirs.
Powers are given to man for one purpose that he . May use them and to us it is wholly irrational to suggest that what is given with one hand is to be taken away with the other, because the formality of supplication is not employed when anything of moment is to be put into execution. The notion that intelligence was put in man only to be shattered, a will given him only to be forthwith distorted by passion or blinded by ignorance, and that "there is no health in us " unless we abase ourselves to the 131 MORALITY AS A RELIGION dust and proclaim our utter worthlessness, is to men and women of this time wholly inconceivable.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
What wonder, when this advice is followed out to the letter, that we are overwhelmed with assurances that prayers have been answered, when a man is appointed to a sinecure or has obtained a life- pension ? What one would like to ask is this : Do these credulous people suppose that the event would have been otherwise, had the young candidate not prayed ? Do they suppose that the Deity would positively have snatched away the prize at the last moment, and given it to another, simply because he had... not been consulted in the matter ? If they do, then we must confess our ideals of the Divine are very different from theirs.
Powers are given to man for one purpose that he . May use them and to us it is wholly irrational to suggest that what is given with one hand is to be taken away with the other, because the formality of supplication is not employed when anything of moment is to be put into execution. The notion that intelligence was put in man only to be shattered, a will given him only to be forthwith distorted by passion or blinded by ignorance, and that "there is no health in us " unless we abase ourselves to the 131 MORALITY AS A RELIGION dust and proclaim our utter worthlessness, is to men and women of this time wholly inconceivable.
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