Essay on the Common Features Which Appear in All Forms of Religious Belief (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Cust, Robert Needham

 
9781330586136: Essay on the Common Features Which Appear in All Forms of Religious Belief (Classic Reprint)
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It is a mistake to suppose, that men of Science attack Religion from pure malice, for it is to be feared, that they do not think of Religion at all: they are led on in spite of themselves in search of absolute tested Truth. The real contest is betwixt one phase of Science and another, betwixt the crude knowledge of yesterday and the less crude knowledge of to-day. The contest is merely the measure of the difficulty of exchanging obsolete notions for new and accurate ones. Our ancestors transmitted to us certain notions, which they honestly and piously entertained, but to which we cannot assent without considerable revision. The discovery by Copernicus of the rotation of the globe is an instance. It had nothing to do with man's belief in God, and yet at the time of the discovery it was deemed atheistic, and contrary to the Scriptures. As in the newly-discovered ruins of an ancient city, students occupy themselves in digging, and sorting, everything, that the spade turned up, and speculating on its origin and object: so in the pages of ancient Manuscripts, he tried to look below the actual written words, and with the lens of Higher Criticism try to find out the motive, the environment, the materials available, and the antecedents, of the writer. Among his large acquaintance he had never taken intimate counsel with any: he was not a thoughtless observer: he had known many, who all their life had been worldly, immoral, with no thought of ever turning to their Creator, careless of the future, unrepentant of the past, and yet Prosperity of every kind had accompanied them from the cradle to the grave. On the other hand, he knew of good men and women, whose life had been embittered by sorrow, suffering, want, and bereave ment, the result of the errors of others. He read in the papers of hundreds being suffocated in a mine, drowned in a shipwreck, or crushed to death in a railway accident, of some bright angel of purity and goodness being drowned in a boat-accident.

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It is a mistake to suppose, that men of Science attack Religion from pure malice, for it is to be feared, that they do not think of Religion at all: they are led on in spite of themselves in search of absolute tested Truth. The real contest is betwixt one phase of Science and another, betwixt the crude knowledge of yesterday and the less crude knowledge of to-day. The contest is merely the measure of the difficulty of exchanging obsolete notions for new and accurate ones. Our ancestors transmitted to us certain notions, which they honestly and piously entertained, but to which we cannot assent without considerable revision. The discovery by Copernicus of the rotation of the globe is an instance. It had nothing to do with man's belief in God, and yet at the time of the discovery it was deemed atheistic, and contrary to the Scriptures.

As in the newly-discovered ruins of an ancient city, students occupy themselves in digging, and sorting, everything, that the spade turned up, and speculating on its origin and object: so in the pages of ancient Manuscripts, he tried to look below the actual written words, and with the lens of Higher Criticism try to find out the motive, the environment, the materials available, and the antecedents, of the writer.

Among his large acquaintance he had never taken intimate counsel with any: he was not a thoughtless observer: he had known many, who all their life had been worldly, immoral, with no thought of ever turning to their Creator, careless of the future, unrepentant of the past, and yet Prosperity of every kind had accompanied them from the cradle to the grave. On the other hand, he knew of good men and women, whose life had been embittered by sorrow, suffering, want, and bereave ment, the result of the errors of others. He read in the papers of hundreds being suffocated in a mine, drowned in a shipwreck, or crushed to death in a railway accident, of some bright angel of purity and goodness being drowned in a boat-accident.

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And now my Sunimer-task is ended. Roll
Up all my papers, and my volumes close:
From parts divergent 1 have sought a whole,
Complete and perfect, as before me rose
The variant Message, which from Heaven's abode
Came down to earth to lead poor man to God.

Each Message but reveals th' unchanging plan
Of Love and Kindness to poor Humankind,
And, like a sunflower, turns the heart of man
Groping through darkness his soul's sun to find:
No cavern is so dark, but through the night
One ray streams in of God's eternal light.

As his forefathers did in Abraham's time,
Still by the stream the Brahmin chaunts his prayers;
The Buddhist asks for nothing, but sublime
Emancipation from Life's dreary cares.
Oh ! could no Angel earth's hard path have trod
To whisper in his ear : "There is a God!"

Can we believe, that all-embracing Grace,
Which o'er Creation's waters used to glide,
Chose out one puny, graceless. Jewish Race,
And shut the gates of Hope on all beside:
Let them indulge their passions and their crimes
And raise up trophies to outlive all times?

Buddha, Confucius, Plato, Socrates,
Left words of gold, which no age can destroy;
They please, when all things else have ceased to please:
But of those holy men how great the joy,
Had God's own Message by their soul been heard;
If one still voice their inward heart had stirred!

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