Excerpt from Religion and to-Day We are beginning to realise personality as the soul of things, as the one reason for things. Religion has reached us through the great personalities. Christ ianity is a religion of personalities; and it holds its place as having in its Founder the deepest rooted of all the souls we know the one whose character, teachings, and work reach farthest and highest, our divinest symbol as Carlyle has it, the in carnation of all that is to us dearest and holiest. But Christianity to-day does not ...
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Excerpt from Religion and to-Day We are beginning to realise personality as the soul of things, as the one reason for things. Religion has reached us through the great personalities. Christ ianity is a religion of personalities; and it holds its place as having in its Founder the deepest rooted of all the souls we know the one whose character, teachings, and work reach farthest and highest, our divinest symbol as Carlyle has it, the in carnation of all that is to us dearest and holiest. But Christianity to-day does not stand as denying or excluding the Divine culture of man outside its immediate range. It stands rather as fulfilling and completing it. Its relation to other religions has never been better expressed than in the words of the late M. Sabatier, of Paris. The Christian conscious ness is not merely an accidental form or part of the general religious consciousness. It is with the final term of this ideal as with the summit of a mountain. The summit is a part of the mountain, but it domin ates all the other parts, in their ascending stage from the depths of the valley up to itself; and by that fact it embraces them all and assigns to each its place and rank in the whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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