Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Outlines of the Religion of Experience: A Book for Laymen and the Unchurched
The period through which we are passing has been characterized with great accuracy and felicity by Mr. Walter Lippmann as one of simultaneous drift and mas teryz mastery of detail, combined with drift in the matter of the paramount interests of life and its direction as a whole. In no way is this state of things more clearly demonstrated than by the contrast between our great and constant advances in scientific knowledge and the control of the world's material resources, and the ever increasing confusion, obscurity and uncertainty in the domain of morals and religion. We know more about the trees than our forebears, and can handle them with unprecedented skill; but of the dimensions of the wood, and of the chances of finding a path through it, we do not know. Indeed, we are tempted to despair of the possibil ity of knowing. Our impulse is towards agreeing with Auguste Comte in his assertion that metaphysical in quiry is vain, and that we must deliberately limit our selves to the field of the phenomenal, in Which positive knowledge and positive results are obtainable.
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