Glimpses Of Truth Along The Boundaries Of Thought Concerning Certain Knowledge

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Excerpt from Glimpses of Truth: Along the Boundaries of Thought; Concerning Certain Knowledge, Matter, the Soul, the Deity, Evolution, Assyriology, Higher Criticism of the Bible, the Christ and Other Masters, Immorality, and Heaven 'I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.' John XVI. 'When he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth.' 'He shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.' John XVI. It seems reasonable, then, to say that revelation is not completed, but being completed; that we look for higher knowledge of God, for larger moral views of His relation to us, and of ours to Him, as time goes on and mankind grows.' Stopford Brooke. 'Everywhere there is continuity, evolution without a break; and in revelation it is the same.' Stopford Brooke. 'Men want a theology as well as a daily religion of "sweet reasonableness," want the intellect satisfied as well as the heart. They wish for ideas under which they can collect their thoughts with regard to the questions involved in the relation between God and man, such as the Being of God, what nature and man and evil are in relation to Him, forgiveness of sins, immortality, the future fate of the race.' Stopford Brooke. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... Man's golden age is in the future.--Poetry and mythology are wont to represent the earliest age of man's abode upon the earth as one of purity and innocence, of prosperity and peace, a time when he lived in perfect happiness on the fruits of the unfilled earth, suffered no bodily infirmity, passed away in a gentle sleep, and became after his demise a guardian daemon of this world. All this is nothing more than gloss, 1' an air-hung mirage over sterile desert sands.' The ideal of our humanity is painted not on the crumbling walls of the past but on the fresh clean canvas of the future. We must look not backward but forward for man's best and happiest lot. Just as the astronomer can predict the future state of the heavens, so the sociologist can foresee that division of labor, mutual dependence, coincidence of human interests throughout vast areas, growth of international friendship, antagonism against warfare as against an intolerable disturbance, and the spirit of Christianity, making ever wider and deeper conquests must as cooperating forces go on until in the remote future an approximately perfect state of society will be reached all over the world. Human progress is the law of history.--*' By far the most obvious and constant characteristic common to a vast number of social changes is that they are changes from a worse to a better state of things, that they constitute phases of progress.' *' It is not asserted that human history has in all times and places been the history of progress.' We do not entertain the fallacy of supposing civilization to have without any exception proceeded serially or uniformly. The career of 1 Gerald Massey, 2 Prof. Fiske. progress 1' has been frequently interrupted by periods of stagnation and declension.'...