The Psalmist And the Scientist Or Modern Value of the Religious Sentiment
The Psalmist And the Scientist Or Modern Value of the Religious Sentiment
George Matheson
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" The ultimate ground of eternal life, therefore, is here placed in a moral distinction, and the principle of survival shades into a higher principle — the law of retribution. Now there is no subject on which the present age is thought to be more utterly divided from the past than the belief in that theory called the law of retri- bution. The nineteenth century is pre-eminently an age of law ; its leading aim is to reduce everything to law. The days of the psalmist were in one respect analogous.... The ancient Israelite, like the modern scientist, not only believed in the existence of an unchanging and unchangeable law, but he believed that within the compass of this law every object in heaven and earth must somehow be in- cluded. But the difference between the ancient Israelite and the modern scientist lies here : the former looked upon law as itself a product; the latter regards it as an ultimate scientific fact. The modern scientist, as a scientist, never asks why 232 The Psalmist and the Scientist.
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