The Evolution of Religion the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University
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Human development will belie all its past history, if the new light upon man's relations to the world and to his fellowmen, which science is every day bringing to us, does not give occasion to a new evolution or interpre- tation of the idea of God.^ To overcome an error, we must discern its partial truth. In one way Mr. Spencer's view meets and satisfies the religious consciousness. It was not in an irreligious spirit that the friend of Job asked the question, " Canst thou by searching find out... God, canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection ? " '' Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself, God of Israel, the Saviour, " said the prophet Isaiah. " Of ^ In what has been as yet said, it will be observed that we have to do only with the abstract idea of God as a principle of unity in all our consciousness, not with any further conception of Him such as we may afterwards meet with in special religions. DUALISriC VIEW OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 139 Thee, " said Hooker, "our fittest eloquence is silence, while we confess without confessing that Thy glory is unsearchable and beyond our reach.
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