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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... of a personal creator, theology attempts to account for one unaccountable phenomenon, by another, equally unaccountable. A product of primitive ignorance, the God idea, however modified by modern metaphysics, must be wholly eliminated before a correct understanding of Nature can be reached. Surrounded by ...
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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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... of a personal creator, theology attempts to account for one unaccountable phenomenon, by another, equally unaccountable. A product of primitive ignorance, the God idea, however modified by modern metaphysics, must be wholly eliminated before a correct understanding of Nature can be reached. Surrounded by mystery, we need not call it God! We do not know! Not knowing we aspire. We should not assume another mystery, and think we know, and cease to think. But mankind find a deity in what they cannot comprehend: begin to grovel, cease to think, accept theology and are satisfied. Science, however, in demonstrating that motion and creative energy are inherent in atoms, acting independently of any higher power, has established the fact of a purely natural cosmology, about which transcendentalism has been assuming and guessing for ages. The universe is infinite, therefore could not have been created. The germ of all life is in Nature, to be developed under favorable conditions. And although we may not now be able to trace the entire process of its inception, we are sure it is not supernatural. With inherent power to evolve a world, Nature hath also power to fill it with life and beauty. All organic life, conscious and unconscious, is an inevitable result, not of plan or design, but of conditions and environment. When conditions were right, life appeared. In the final analysis all the processes of organic and inorganic Nature are alike inherent in its elements. There is no myth or miracle, deity or demon connected with the process, but natural cause and effect. Such common kinds of everyday stuff as air and water, are essential to all organic life. Air, earth and water teem with life, animal and vegetable, visible and invisible. Wherever there is light, ..
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