Atheism And the Value of Life: Five Studies in Contemporary Literature
Atheism And the Value of Life: Five Studies in Contemporary Literature
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Still, in one sense of the word it is a Religion of Nature also ; for man is himself an integral part of Nature — one revelation, perhaps the highest, of the all-embracing unity. What, then, is the content of this second kind of religion ? In explaining this the author finds no difficulty.
The Religion of Humanity, he says, is simply the Religion of Christianity, with the super- natural part subtracted from it. It contains all the brotherly love, the willingness to spend and be spent for others..., the hope, the charity, the enthusiasm, the admiration for moral excellence, that Christ taught, appealed to, and R 242 NATURAL RELIGION awakened in the mind of the Christian world.
The object of its worship is not the inhuman immensity, the inhuman order adored by the first religion. It is not the earthquake and the fire ; ' it is the still small voice ; ' 'it is the compassion we feel for one another ; ' ' not the storm that threatens the sailor with death, but the life-boat and the Grace Darling that put out from shore to the rescue ; not the intricate laws that confound our prudence, but the science that penetrates them, and the art that makes them subservient to our purposes.' It is^ in a word, all that we recognise as morally good in man ; and the religion and the worship con- sists in our admiration and our imitation of this.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Still, in one sense of the word it is a Religion of Nature also ; for man is himself an integral part of Nature — one revelation, perhaps the highest, of the all-embracing unity. What, then, is the content of this second kind of religion ? In explaining this the author finds no difficulty.
The Religion of Humanity, he says, is simply the Religion of Christianity, with the super- natural part subtracted from it. It contains all the brotherly love, the willingness to spend and be spent for others..., the hope, the charity, the enthusiasm, the admiration for moral excellence, that Christ taught, appealed to, and R 242 NATURAL RELIGION awakened in the mind of the Christian world.
The object of its worship is not the inhuman immensity, the inhuman order adored by the first religion. It is not the earthquake and the fire ; ' it is the still small voice ; ' 'it is the compassion we feel for one another ; ' ' not the storm that threatens the sailor with death, but the life-boat and the Grace Darling that put out from shore to the rescue ; not the intricate laws that confound our prudence, but the science that penetrates them, and the art that makes them subservient to our purposes.' It is^ in a word, all that we recognise as morally good in man ; and the religion and the worship con- sists in our admiration and our imitation of this.
What to read after Atheism And the Value of Life: Five Studies in Contemporary Literature?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Mallock William Hurrell to read onlineMoreLess
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