Ethical Addresses: Eleventh Series; Lectures Given Before the American Ethical Union (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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But, on the other hand, we need to be equally warned against expecting too much from the intellect, against the supposition that merely by the use of the reason we can get a religion. That, also, is not the way. One cannot get a religion merely by trying to think out the problems of the universe. That is the mistake of many, especially of young men when they begin to be troubled about the problems of life. They suppose that by mere thinking and reading they can obtain a solution. You may study all the idealistic systems of philosophy from Plato down, following the subtle, daring and often brill iant arguments by which these thinkers attempted to prove the existence of the divine in the universe; and, after reading all their books and mastering all their argu ments, you may yet be not a whit nearer to religion. In the same manner, you might go through all the text books of science - that science which I have just said we may not contradict - with a view of finding in the scroll of nature the marks of design, the revelations of the divine; and, at the end of your search, you might yet be no nearer to religion than you were at the outset. It is a mistake to approach the subject of religion from the point of view of the intellect.

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