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I do not ask that the reader accept the testimony of another. The challenge is that he shall search his own consciousness to its depths and bring back its report. I have tried to tell merely what my consciousness assures me. The question for the reader is: What does your consciousness, honestly and thoroughly questioned, reply to these statements I only venture to offer them as a means for bringing the study home to other minds.
If this essay seems to be fragmentary the material for a philosophy of ethics and religion, rather than the completed thought I may, perhaps, be allowed to refer my readers to The Theology of Civilization, in which I have endeavored more fully to relate together the results of this study into their proper unity. If there is further wish to know the practical outcome of this sort of study; if any one asks the chief of all vital questions, namely, What is the test and working value of this view of the Problem of Duty possibly the reader may be willing to find my answer in The Coming People, where I have tried to express in the simplest terms an interpretation of life, which seems to me to be a perennial inspiration toward noble conduct and reverent faith.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0259776173
- ISBN 13 9780259776178
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages46
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