The Relation Between Religion And Science: a Biological Approach
The Relation Between Religion And Science: a Biological Approach
Angus Stewart Woodburne
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Given the appropriate stimulus, the instinctive response is assured. (2) It is developed in man in whom ethical impulses and other social instincts are well developed. (3) Religious expressions are spontaneously developed. (4) Activities involved in religious expression have some biological 1 C. P. Tide, Elements of the Science of Religion, U, 230-31. * Morris Jastrow, The Study of Religion, pp. 106-08. * D. G. Brinton, Religions of Primitive People, p. 47. 4 H. R. Marshall, Instinct and Reason..., chap. iz. Digitized by Google THEORY OF RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTINCTS 59 function, some import to the race. (5) The rise of religious activ- ities is anterior to the speculative, intellectual life. He then pro- ceeds to the assumption of the existence of a religious instinct which expresses itself in ascetic practices, fasting, prayer, sacrifice, making of pilgrimages, etc. He sums up his thesis in the statement: "Religious activities are the expression of a true instinct; and the religious instinct must be looked on as our highest instinct because its function is regulative of reason, tending to bring about sub- ordination of variation to the typical reactions lower than those expressive of the religious instinct itself, in case variation becomes over-influential.
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