What Is Religion?: A Protest Against, "the Spirit of the Age," a Plea for the Reality of the Spiritual (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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HE little light Of awakened human intelligence shines so mere a spark amid the abyss of the Unknown and Unknowable - seems so insufficient to do more than illuminate the imperfections that cannot be remedied, the aspirations that cannot be realized, Of man's own nature. But in this sadness, this consciousness Of the limitation Of man, this sense Of an open secret which he cannot pene trate, lies the essence Of all religion; and the attempt to embody it in the forms furnished by the intellect is the origin Of the higher theologies. If the religion Of the present differs from that of the past, it is because the theol ogy Of the present has become more scientific than that of the past 3 because it has not only renounced idols Of wood and idols Of stone, but begins to see the necessity Of breaking in pieces the idols built up Of books and traditions and fine spun ecclesiastical cobwebs; and Of cherishing the noblest and most human Of man's emotions, by worship 'of the most part Of the silent sort,' at the altar Of the Unknown and Unknowable. (huxley's Lay Sermons.)

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