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Excerpt from God in Human Thought, or Natural Theology Traced in Literature, Ancient and Modern, to the Time of Bishop Butler, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Closing Chapter on the Moral System, and an English Bibliography, From Spenser to Butler
The recognition of such an order, traceable through the ages, is a most significant fact. Bunsen has had it in view in his God in History. I have aimed to traverse some fields to which he barely refers, and bring to the stand the testi mony afforded by ancient and modern literature. How in adequately this can be done in such limits as I have been constrained to assign myself, must be obvious to all who con sider the field which must necessarily be traversed. I have been compelled to omit much which I would gladly have ia troduced, and I have frequently touched on incidental to ics which tempted to digressions inconsistent with my plan. He theistic views, moreover, of some authors, can be only inade quatelv presented without a larger exposition of the philoso phy which served as their frame-work, than I have been able to give; but I have aimed to resent those features of their thought which were most stri ing and characteristic, and to indicate the fields of investigation in which the students of different periods of history will find a wealth in which their gleanings will surpass what I have reaped. 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.
