The Meaning of God in Human Experience : a Philosophic Study of Religion
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God shows thereby what he loves and what he hates; and though there is much weary guessing as to the reasons for the presence or the absence of divine favor, yet in the course of time inductions emerge, " experimental wisdom " of fairly stable sort. These resulting judgments are thus due to what F. B. Jevons has happily called " supernatural selection," in contrast to the natural selection of survival by actual utility. ^ And all such judgments, social, cosmological, and moral, are at the same ...time judgments about the nature of God ; are so many developments of the knowledge of God, made possible by this continuous alternation in experi- 1 This process also we see in the Odes of Solomon : " And I forsook vanity, and turned to the Most High my God, and I was enriched by his bounty ; and I forsook the folly which was diffused over the earth — yea, I stripped it off, and cast it from me." 2 Introduction to the history of religion, ch. viii. CERTAINTY AND DOGMA 459 ence. The mystic's preparation is an epitome of such empirical judgments about God, that is to say, of the kind of disposition which God will favor.
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