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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 Original Publisher: Putnam Subjects: Ethics Belief and doubt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: III. THE NEW IDEAL. THE old religions and science are at war. With pitiless consistency science directs its attack upon their vulnerable positions. The conception of inexorable law subverts the testimony of miracles ; the fond belief in truths divinely revealed fails to withstand the searching analysis of historical criticism ; the battle of science is yet far from being won, but from our standpoint the issue cannot appear doubtful. It behooves us therefore to inquire into the moral bearings of the general result thus far achieved and to review what we have lost and won. Shall we succeed thereby in allaying the sense of alarm that is wont to agitate the timid heart when it beholds so much that it confidently believed a part of the everlasting verities of life, sink back into the gulf of uncertainty and doubt ? We are standing at the portals of a new age, and new conceptions have arisen of the purpose which we are here to accomplish and of the means of help we can command in the attempt to realize our destiny. These new conceptions we call The NewIdeal. It is the purpose of our present discourse to compare some salient features of the old and new. The old and new Ideals agree in looking to an Infinite beyond the borders of experience, for it is in the nature of the ideal to lift us above the merely real. They differ in the direction in which they seek their object, and the bias which they consequently give to men's thoughts and actions. Theology, perceiving the inability of reason to solve the problems of the beginning and the end, yet un...
Book Details
| Book Name | Creed And Deed: A Series Of Discourses |
| Author | Felix Adler |
| Publisher | Bibliolife (Jan 2009) |
| ISBN | 9781103035939 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1521 |
