God and the World: A Survey of ThoughtRobinson, Arthur William
Religion
God and the World: A Survey of Thought
Robinson, Arthur William
Religion -- Philosophy; Religion and science
and action upon us, just because He would help us to be our own, not
dead but living, selves, and would have us rise with Him to the highest
things?
We are far from the end of our learning. There are many enigmas yet to
be made plain. We could not wish it otherwise. It has ever been
through the narrow gate of difficulty that we have passed into the
wider court of truth. We have good cause to be humble, but we have
full right to be hopeful. We must not be afraid to face the problems
that await {106} us, whatever they may be. We may be confident that we
are not to be deceived; but that, under a Guidance that has never
failed, we shall at length be brought to see the dawning of the
longed-for day,
"When that in us which thinks with that which feels
Shall everlastingly be reconciled,
And that which questioneth with that which kneels."
[1] This important distinction was carefully drawn by the Duke of
Argyll in his _Reign of Law_ (pp. 14, 25), published in 1866.
[2] Aubrey Moore, in one of a series of remarkable articles contributed
to the _Guardian_ (January 18th, 25th, February 1st, 1888).
[3] Aubrey Moore, _Lux Mundi_.
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INDEX
AETHER, 73, 94.
Agnosticism, 32, 46-52.
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 13.
Argyle, George Douglas, Duke of, 37, 100.
Atoms, 21, 71, 72.
Augustine, St., 50.
Avebury, Lord, 58.
BACON, LORD, 14.
Balfour, A. J., 75, 86.
"Bathybius," 78.
Becquerel, A. C., 70.
Beneficence, Divine, 17, 18, 53-67, 103.
Bergson, Henri, 84-86, 89, 90.
Brain, 88, 89, 90.
Bunsen, R. W., 24.
CARLYLE, THOMAS, 63.
Cause, 29.
Cells, The growth of, 77.
Chalmers, Thomas, 19, 20.
Chance, 30, 44, 56.
Consciousness, 85, 89, 90.
Creation, Mosaic account of 39.
Creative power, affirmed by Science, 39.
Cruelty in Nature, 34, 35, 54-67.
Curie, Mme., 70.
DALTON, JOHN, 21.
Darwin, Charles, 24-26, 41-43, 54, 58, 64.
Deserts, Use of, 62.
Design, Argument from, 14-16, 29, 40-45, 103.
Directive power, 44, 83, 106.
Du Bois Raymond, E., 37.
Dysteleology, 35.
EARTHQUAKES, 66.
Electrons, 71.
Energy:
Conservation of, 23, 42, 75.
Dissipation of, 73.
_Evil and Evolution_, 64-66.
Evil in Nature, 18, 63-67.
Evolution, Doctrine of, 24, 25, 40, 104.
FARADAY, MICHAEL, 22, 37.
"First Cause," 13, 28, 32, 38, 39, 101, 102.
Freedom, 84, 95, 104, 105.
Future life, 89-92, 95.
GEOLOGY, 23, 39, 70.
Goodwin, Bishop Harvey, 47.
Gore, Bishop, 50, 57.
Gray, Asa, 41, 56.
HAECKEL, E., 29, 30, 31, 35, 40.
Haldane, J. S., 80.
Hartog, Professor, 96.
Heat, Mechanical equivalent of, 23.
Helium, 70.
Helmholtz, H. von, 22.
Herschel, Sir John, 69.
Huxley, T. H., 32, 35, 40, 43, 61, 78.
ICHNEUMONIDAE, 56.
Insensibility of animals, 60, 61.
JAMES, WILLIAM, 92, 93.
Joule, J. P., 23, 37.
KELVIN, LORD, 37, 39, 44, 68, 70, 78.
Kepler, J., 19.
Kerner, Anton, 81, 82.
Kirchhoff, Professor, 24.
Knight, Professor W., 57.
LAMARCK, J. B., 22, 26.
Laplace, P. S., 19.
Larmor, Sir J., 71, 96.
Liebig, J. F. von, 44.
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