The Basis of Religion Being An Examination of Natural Religion
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. A principle of life possessing the whole imagination and heart. " ^ This might be true, if the term miracle were ^ P. Vi, 2d edition. ^ p 4^^ 3 p_ i4i_ B 1 8 The Basis of Religion, used in its strict and definite sense ; but our author means it to include immortality ; and if we eliminate that from the universe, worship, as we shall see, becomes an impossibility. Once more, he says : — " It was honestly believed that supernatural occurrences had happened and could be authenticated, and that s...uch occurrences were calculated to throw new hght upon the relation of God to man. If this belief was a delusion, theology must learn to confine itself to Nature. " ^ But besides supernatural occurrences, — viz. , miracles, — there are, or at any rate conceivably may be, supernatural existences — viz. , the soul and God ; in other words, there may be super- natural elements within Nature itself. Were miracles for ever disproved, it would not follow that there was nothing in the world but matter : it would still be possible that if we looked deeply enouo-h into Nature, we should find it to be in reality supernatural.
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