Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... XLIV THE TEACHING OF JESUS Thus far the subject has been discussed from scientific, philosophic, ethical, and moral points of view, but it will be incomplete if dismissed without some consideration of its relation to the teaching of Jesus, the Christ. To some minds this will appear important, to others perhaps it will seem to be only a repetition of statements already made, while those who have never examined it in this aspect may find in his teaching a phase not before suspected. The moral and religious features of the work of Jesus so eclipse all others that he is seldom thought of as a philosopher or a scientist. It is the more general opinion that he promulgated certain rules for the guidance of mankind in their personal and social relations, but more especially in their religious duties, whereby they may attain more harmonious conditions, greater morality, higher spirituality, and therefore more peace and happiness here, and possibly eternal bliss hereafter. Those who hold this opinion think that he did his work without the aid of philosophy or science and without any of the arts of the logician; hence they suppose that he held such matters more or less in contempt, and that there is no connection, association, nor relationship between his utterances and those of philosophy and science. Indeed, scarcely a generation ago it was stoutly declared that science and religion were in open conflict; nor is it so very long since the opinion was widely prevalent that the teaching of Jesus is without system, and that it consists of independent, disjointed declarations, having little or no connection with one another, and sometimes, if not often, contradictory -- an opinion which has not yet wholly disappeared. That there is a basic system, ..
