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. 1915 Excerpt: ...man proceeds from God and is a part of the One Universal Being, cannot fail to create responsive thrills in the finite mind. It is impossible to imagine all the resuits that will follow when men generally have grasped so profound and thrilling a conception of God and His vital relation to the Universe and every ...
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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. 1915 Excerpt: ...man proceeds from God and is a part of the One Universal Being, cannot fail to create responsive thrills in the finite mind. It is impossible to imagine all the resuits that will follow when men generally have grasped so profound and thrilling a conception of God and His vital relation to the Universe and every individual life. Try to think what the outcome may be, when all the physical textbooks in all the schools and colleges of the world shall begin, as the first postulate, where the author of Genesis starts, "In the beginning, God." Is this an Utopian idea? A Professor of Literature in one of our universities, recently asked an eminent physicist, "Will college textbooks declare this doctrine of the unity of force, the oneness of all phenomena, physical, mental, spiritual?" "Most assuredly," was the answer. "Just as soon as it is settled how to regard inertia, whether as a condition or as a mode of force, even the most elementary manuals will begin with the fact of God, as the first principle of physical knowledge, and thus Theology and Science will be brought into solidarity." It may have been some such thought as this that induced John Fiske to predict a great revival of religion in the near future, which, though different in character, should excel in the universality of its effect, that of those days which built the Cathedrals of Europe. Wonderful and thrilling as are these new conceptions of God that are gradually driving out of human thinking the half-gods of the past, still we must realize that the knowledge of God means vastly more than merely entertaining great and glorious notions about God. Our ideas of God may be purely intellectual, our knowledge of God must be spiritual. It was Jesus who said, and it ...
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