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. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...to show the correctness of the Biblical ideas from the point of view of reason. We should not always be ready to deny the importance of a thing merely because we are ignorant of its usefulness. There are hundreds of things even in the material world the value of which is not known to the majority of us, but ...
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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. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...to show the correctness of the Biblical ideas from the point of view of reason. We should not always be ready to deny the importance of a thing merely because we are ignorant of its usefulness. There are hundreds of things even in the material world the value of which is not known to the majority of us, but only to a few experts. It is only the numismatist who can distinguish between valuable and worthless coins, the physician who understands how to diagnosticate the nature of a disease, and the jeweller who can tell the difference between the various kinds of precious stones. The same applies to every art and science. Inaccessible to the multitude, they are known to the few initiated in the secrets. If this be the case with things material, how much truer must it be when we deal with things spiritual. The soul is admittedly the most spiritual entity under human observation. What wonder that we have no knowledge as to the effect certain practices and customs of ours may have on it. We cannot tell the influence on our soul or character that is exercised by the observance of ceremonies, the dietary laws, and the like. We must assume that God, the Creator of our soul, knows the benefits that accrue to it from lawful acts and the harm that it suffers if we go counter to 'His ordinances. It is therefore best for us to carry out God's commands to the letter. The reward is certain to follow. See Guttmann, Saadia, p. 170, n. I. ""Amanat, p. 165 (84), beginning of the chapter. The general ideas of merit and demerit having thus been made clear, the author divides all men into ten classes, according to the degree in which these two aspects of human life manifest themselves in their religious conduct. The division seems to be, in part, rather arbitrary and...
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