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n In the first period our attention is drawn to two types of thought — the simple intuitive views of the Hebrews, and the highly speculative position of the Greeks. Everywhere in Hebrew thought the existence of their God was taken for granted. The apparent arguments put forth by their great prophets never formed a basis for their belief, but were instead a confirmation, a beau- 93 94 THE IDEA OF GOD tiful and fitting confirmation of a conviction already established beyond the possibility of sha...king. The ques- tion whether he who formed the organs by which we are in contact with the world should not himself possess the same, carried its own self-evident answer. And long after- ward the apostle whose thought was tinged with contem- porary idealism beheld in all visible things a manifestation of the unseen divine reality. Nothing was, however, fur- ther from their intention than to support by argument what seemed to them self-evident, and therefore convinc- ing and incontrovertible. The being who was thus revealed was indeed not one of pure spirituality, but this fact does not in any way alter the force of our conten- tion.
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