This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...of spiritual processes invisible to the rest of mankind. He is also a chemist whose crucible is reflective thought. And in it he tests the elements which have hitherto passed as independent and indissoluble constituents of human belief. It may very well happen, therefore, that a theory which was stable enough for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...of spiritual processes invisible to the rest of mankind. He is also a chemist whose crucible is reflective thought. And in it he tests the elements which have hitherto passed as independent and indissoluble constituents of human belief. It may very well happen, therefore, that a theory which was stable enough for earlier thought will fail to produce conviction in us. Only since reason is everywhere one and the same, the philosopher must recognize in that primitive theory a relative truth. And in dealing with the grounds of belief in God, it is especially important that we should distinguish the formulas, more or less imperfect, in which they have been expressed, from the essential substance and content which philosophy reflecting upon them sees to have been already involved in the religious consciousness of the rudest thinkers though they themselves were unaware of it. Im Anfang war die That: This profound saying of Goethe's means in the present case that the act and fact of man's apprehension of God preceded his meditating afterthought of it. And this situation of affairs deserves more consideration than it generally receives. That the human spirit is, as a matter of fact, in possession of the idea of God is an argument for the existence of God unless it can be shown that certain ideas, though uniformly produced, are insubstantial pageants of the phantasy. It is no reply to say that all men once believed in the motion of the sun round the earth. Science does reveal to us modes of behavior of things, of which our ancestors unskilled in experiment and artificial observation could have no suspicion. And the scientific interpretation of the fuller body of facts naturally differs from the prescientific interpretation of the narrowfield of unassisted perception....
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