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Number: A Link Between Divine and Human Intelligence; An Argument
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A Philosophy of materialism, and a religion in which material sense predominates over spiritual, are at present loudly boasting of the many proselytes each has gained amongst persons not without considerable pretensions to culture, whether philosophic or religious. It may therefore prove not unseasonable, if one born in the preceding century, who has long been deeply interested in the researches of modern Science, now offers for consideration the following argument; tending as it does to prove, on grounds of reason generally intelligible, rather than technically scientific, the essential spirituality of human nature. For the more thoroughly man can be convinced, not only that God is a Spirit, but moreover that he himself, though he has a material body, yet in respect of his higher faculties is a spirit akin to his Creator, the better will he be prepared to reject those materialistic notions, which would hinder him as a philosopher from believing in the true God, and as a believer from worshipping that God in spirit and in truth.
A Philosophy of materialism, and a religion in which material sense predominates over spiritual, are at present loudly boasting of the many proselytes each has gained amongst persons not without considerable pretensions to culture, whether philosophic or religious. It may therefore prove not unseasonable, if one born in the preceding century, who has long been deeply interested in the researches of modern Science, now offers for consideration the following argument; tending as it does to prove, on grounds of reason generally intelligible, rather than technically scientific, the essential spirituality of human nature. For the more thoroughly man can be convinced, not only that God is a Spirit, but moreover that he himself, though he has a material body, yet in respect of his higher faculties is a spirit akin to his Creator, the better will he be prepared to reject those materialistic notions, which would hinder him as a philosopher from believing in the true God, and as a believer from worshipping that God in spirit and in truth.
34 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1875
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