osophy to have pointed
this out. It is a conception presented several times in the history
of philosophy, but there is great need of re-emphasising it to-day,
especially as things in space have gripped the soul with such power
and disastrous results.
[50] _The Truth of Religion_, p. 243.
[51] _The Truth of Religion_, p. 200. _Cf._ also _Koennen wir noch
Christen sein_? pp. 91-141.
[52] _Cf._ Ward's _The Realm of Ends_, chapters ii. and xx.; also
Caird's _Evolution of Religion_ has many valuable hints throughout
the two volumes pointing in the same direction.
[53] _The Truth of Religion_, p. 436.
[54] Quoted in _The Truth of Religion_, p. 436.
[55] Cf. _The Truth of Religion_, pp. 429 ff.
[56] _The Truth of Religion_, p. 430.
[57] This fact is very clearly interpreted by Rickert in his
_Gegenstand der Erkenntnis_.
[58] _The Truth of Religion_, p. 431.
[59] I cannot but believe that the supposed proofs brought forward
by Sir Oliver Lodge and others are so empirical as to be of very
little value to religion.
[60] _The Truth of Religion_, p. 533.
[61] _The Truth of Religion_, pp. 367, 368.
[62] _The Truth of Religion_, pp. 11, 12.
[63] _The Truth of Religion_, p. 545. It is on this fact that
Eucken builds his conception of immortality. Such a conception is
not a matter of speculation or of scientific proof, but a matter of
an experience born on the summit of the evolution of spiritual life
within the soul. It is useless to attempt to press such an
experience into a conceptual mould.
[64] _The Truth of Religion_, pp. 550, 551.
[65] Driesch is attempting the construction of such a Metaphysic of
Nature, and a similar attempt is to be discovered in Bergson's
philosophy, especially in its later developments.
[66] Troeltsch has also emphasised this truth in his _Absolutheit
des Christentums und die Religionsgeschichte_ and in his _Bedeutung
der Geschichtlichkeit Jesu fuer den Glauben_. These two small
volumes are of great value.
[67] Cf. _Koennen wir noch Christen sein_? pp. 150 to 210; _Das
Wesen der Religion; Life's Basis and Life's Ideal_, p. 332 ff.;
_Christianity and the New Idealism_, chapter iv.; _The Truth of
Religion_, pp. 539 to 616.
[68] _The Truth of Religion_, p. 360.
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