Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 2 of 2)Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Religion
Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 2 of 2)
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches
"Still another conception of the new knowledge is that of the
vast stores of inter-elemental energy of which we live but on the
fringe--a store of energy so great that every breath we draw has
within it sufficient power to drive the workshops of the world.
Man will tap this energy some day, somehow. * * * But now that
we know, or think we know, of this infinite treasure-house of
inter-elemental energy lying latent for the hand of the future
man to use, it is neither difficult nor fanatical to believe that
beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins
shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and
shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. * * * 'In
the beginning God created,' and in the midst of his creation he set
down man with a little spark of the Godhead in him to make him to
strive to know--and in the striving to grow and to progress to some
great, worthy, unknown end in this world. He gave him hands to do,
a will to drive, and senses to apprehend--just a working equipment:
and so he has won his way, so far, out of the horrible conditions
of pre-history."
I have been presenting to you in my discourse the words of our prophet.
Mr. Bolce represents the professors of our American universities as
saying:
"The professors see in man, and in man alone, the consciousness
and power destined to sway the affairs of the world. Professor
Munsterberg insists that the world we will is the reality, and
that the least creature of all mortals 'has more dignity and value
than even an Almighty God,' as that being is popularly conceived.
* * * It is declared by the professors that if divine energy is
divisible and man's spirit inferior to God's, the eternal future of
the soul is unalluring. Christianity so teaches, they say, and is
of all philosophies the most pessimistic. Forever in its scheme man
is to be an underling. Not only that, but uncountable billions of
souls--worms of the dust--are created doomed to perpetual despair;
while a fortunate remnant's highest felicity is to gather around
the throne of a superior and august God and chant his praises."
Then follows this contrast with the above view:
"Opposed to this conception is the new psychology that teaches
that the spirit of man is the highest conscious expression
of the infinite, and that by invoking the powers--the divine
forces--resident in the human, all that humanity desires may be
accomplished."
Thus complete does the divinity of man's spirit appear to these
philosophers. Continuing, these views are expressed:
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