Apologetics (Volume 1); Or, the Scientific Vindication of Christianity - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886. Excerpt: ... being, is to be known in so infinitely small a fragment of this universe as in itself and quite independent by the true absolute? It does indeed seem strange that the Absolute "should come outside of itself" in nature and become objective, and in the human spirit return again into itself; that this should be a characteristic of the Absolute as such, and that now the Absolute "should come to itself" only upon our small planet, and even here not until many ages had passed, for no one doubts that man is the latest of the creatures of the earth! And surely exceeding strange it is that this process of the Absolute's coming to itself should have been brought to a conclusion in the beginning of the nineteenth century by Professor Hegel in Berlin, so that for the "process " of all following thousands of years and ages there remains no longer any content except this, that one must always study this Hegelian system and penetrate by his thinking deeper and deeper into it!1 It is certainly far more easily conceivable that a God, eternally existent and eternally self-conscious, should have looked upon a single small world (and that a world in which that endowed with organic life occupied, in comparison with inorganic matter, an infinitely small space) as the scene for the manifestation of a free act of love, than that the Absolute should first come to a true self unfolding of itself and to a knowledge of itself upon so small a world. In order to find the former supposition conceivable, that God should have chosen this single little planet as the field 1 One, therefore, must agree with D. Fr. Strauss as he passes over from Hegelian to Darwinian materialism Alter und Neuer Glaube, p. 226, Engl. transl. The Old Faith and the New), that with man all science will in the fu...