The Psychological Elements of Religious Faith; Lectures
The Psychological Elements of Religious Faith; Lectures
Everett, Charles Carroll, 1829-1900
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Hence, religion and science both rest on mystery. Religion looks one way, recognizing the mystery itself, the unknown and unknowable cause or basis of the universe. Science looks in the other direc- tion, and sees what is built upon this basis of mystery. Science is the seemingly solid crust 54 OBJECTIONS TO SPENCER'S VIEW of snow on which men erect a shelter, and religion is the sense of the vacancy beneath. Have we here a real reconciliation ? We meet with difficulties at once. In the first p...lace, religion is not an answer to a question, certainly not to a question as to the origin of the world. In the history of religion the cos- mogonists come late ; people did not wait for the religious feeling until they knew how the world was made. The first question of the cosmogonists, too, concerns the arrangement of the world rather than its creation. For the most part the older divinities took shape out of the thought of the spirits of the dead, or out of the personification of natural objects and forces.
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