A Study of Religion: the Meaning And the Thing. a Lecture, Delivered At ...
A Study of Religion: the Meaning And the Thing. a Lecture, Delivered At ...
Abbot, Francis Ellingwood, 1836-1903
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Perhaps you will now say: "This, then, is the essence of religion— perfection^ or symmetri- cal development of thought, feelmg, and will ; of head, heart, and conscience." Not exactly that. The perfection of humanity y Google A STUDY OF RELIGION. 23 is indeed the object of religion, but it is not reli- gion itself. Deeper than thought or will or feel- ing in its origin, religion appears in its universal aspect asthe decree of Nature that her own ends shall be achieved, and hence as that inward ...im- pulsion of the soul towards the right and true which makes itself objective to thought in the IDEAL of humanity ; while in its personal as- pect it appears as tne total and voluntary self- aevotion of humanity to the realization of this ideal. Nothing is religion which does not in- clude this profound impulsion of man^s whole be- ing to the conversion of ideal excellence into actual character, — this profound endeavor, partly within and partly beneath consciousness, to push forward the development of humanity in the di- rection of its natural and ideal goal.
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