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Religion and Science, Their Relations to Each Other at the Present Day; Three Essays on the Grounds of Religious Belief
Stanley Taylor Gibson
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-23.
ISBN 9781150697098
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1875 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Religion and science Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART V. I will now speak of a fresh class of arguments, founded on a basis altogether distinct. No one can doubt that our moral feelings have done much to suggest, to define, and to strengthen our ideas of God. Further, many thinkers have believed that they could find in those feelings an independent proof of the existence of God. Thus Kant argued that the existence of God was needed to harmonise the authority of the moral law with our instinctive desire of happiness. Conscience often dictates a course which, so far as we can see, is at variance with our natural care for self. A God is needed to bear the good man out in his course, to make the way of right ultimately the way of happiness as well. If there be no such power our nature is divided into contradictory and hostile principles. This argument has been disallowed by writers as widely apart as Dean Mansel and Dr. Strauss. It has been condemned as inconsistent with the Christian doctrine of man's unworthiness in the sight of God, and again as opposed to enlightened views of human happiness, views which make virtue by itself apart from any outward reward the greatest source of happiness. I do not think much of these objections. God's government does make a difference between the good man and the bad, however imperfect and blended the character of either maybe, or else there is an end of all religion. And, again, man's happiness is undoubtedly affected from many outward sources. He ' has too much weakness for the Stoic's part.' There are many trials for the good man ; yea, often for
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