This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...knowledge; and that the instinct for Worship is ancient and powerful too. Witness the feelings induced by some of the ordinary processes of nature, --a sunrise, for instance, as described by that mystical artist and poet William Blake, 'What when the sun rises do you seet A round disc of fire, something like a guinea?' ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...knowledge; and that the instinct for Worship is ancient and powerful too. Witness the feelings induced by some of the ordinary processes of nature, --a sunrise, for instance, as described by that mystical artist and poet William Blake, 'What when the sun rises do you seet A round disc of fire, something like a guinea?' 'Oh, no no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.' In this spirit the Old Testament has to be interpreted and understood. This was the kind of mood in which much of it was written. The great parts of it are manifestly inspired. I tell you that Inspiration is a reality, though its definition is at present vague. No authoritative definition has yet been given by any conclave or any Church; and it is fortunate that it is so, that our conception of Inspiration may enlarge and become more definite as our knowledge grows. But I want to say that whatever Inspiration means, it does not mean infallibility. We have access to no infallible information concerning matter of fact. Our knowledge, as expressed by even the highest Science, is necessarily partial and incomplete; it only deals with aspects, else it could not deal with things at all. It is the outcome of our faculty of abstraction, our power of attending to one part at a time, our power of dividing and classifying and ignoring. Divisions and classifications are arbitrary, --they are human conveniences, --but Truth itself is continuous. There are no absolute boundaries in Nature, there is continuity. In complete knowledge things are unified--everything must be united with everything else. Not material things alone, but thought and feeling and emotion and substance and meaning and all manner of attributes; and all related to the human and
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