The Mystery of Matter, And Other Essays
The Mystery of Matter, And Other Essays
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There are indeed instances — such as that of our belief in an external world, or our assertion of a causation beyond mere succession, — in which faitli does undoubtedly generate opinion. But this is only an illustration of that sort of p(jlar antithesis according to whicli faith and sight mutually create one anothci. For these opinions just mentioned are evidently tlir legitimate pr(»jection of inherent jtredisposition n tlie field of outward observation. And if it sliould 1 »• 212 ESSAYS. IV.
...alleged that this principle is equally applicable to those opinions about historical revelation, which are here maintained to belong to sight rather than to faith, the answer is ob\'ious; for faith does not create its object, neither does it supply the place of eyes, or ears, or reason. A\'liat faith does is simply to give, in loyal obedience to an inward law, a certain interpretation or subjective form to outward objects perceived by appropriate faculties. But faith cannot supply the gaps of historical e^'idence ; no more than it can give increased power to a defective telescope or microscope.
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There are indeed instances — such as that of our belief in an external world, or our assertion of a causation beyond mere succession, — in which faitli does undoubtedly generate opinion. But this is only an illustration of that sort of p(jlar antithesis according to whicli faith and sight mutually create one anothci. For these opinions just mentioned are evidently tlir legitimate pr(»jection of inherent jtredisposition n tlie field of outward observation. And if it sliould 1 »• 212 ESSAYS. IV.
...alleged that this principle is equally applicable to those opinions about historical revelation, which are here maintained to belong to sight rather than to faith, the answer is ob\'ious; for faith does not create its object, neither does it supply the place of eyes, or ears, or reason. A\'liat faith does is simply to give, in loyal obedience to an inward law, a certain interpretation or subjective form to outward objects perceived by appropriate faculties. But faith cannot supply the gaps of historical e^'idence ; no more than it can give increased power to a defective telescope or microscope.
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