Category: Philosophy & Ethics

The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge

IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE SWEET SUNDAY MORNING UNDER THE APPLE-TREE ON THE HILLSIDE, WHEN WE TWO SAT LOOKING DOWN INTO FAIRY WOODLAND PATHS, AND TALKED OF THE THINGS SINCE WRITTEN IN THIS LITTLE BOOK, I now dedicate it.

Chapters

6. Part 6

It was in its own chosen stronghold that this once famous argument was destined to meet its doom. It was in the adaptations of the organic world, in the manifold harmonies betwe...

3. Part 3

In the cycle of studies which are immediately concerned with the career of mankind, the rate of progress has been no less marvellous. The scientific study of human speech may be...

7. Part 7

In the nature-worship of primitive men, beneath all the crudities of thought by which it was overlaid and obscured, there was thus after all an essential germ of truth which mod...

5. Part 5

We are now prepared to see that the theological objection urged against the Newtonian and Darwinian theories has its roots in that imperfect kind of theism which Augustine did s...

2. Part 2

Mr. Harrison is enabled to perform his antics simply because he happens to have such a word as "Unknowable" to play with. Yet the word which has been put to such unseemly uses i...

1. Part 1

IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE SWEET SUNDAY MORNING UNDER THE APPLE-TREE ON THE HILLSIDE, WHEN WE TWO SAT LOOKING DOWN INTO FAIRY WOODLAND PATHS, AND TALKED OF THE THINGS SINCE WRITTEN I...

4. Part 4

That Christianity should thus have retained names and symbols and rites belonging to heathen antiquity was inevitable. The system of Christian theism was the work of some of the...

8. Part 8

Mr. Fiske has given us a book which is at once sensible and attractive, on a subject about which much is written that is crotchety or tedious.--W. R. S. RALSTON, in _Athenæum_ (...