Last essays. First series, Essays on language, folklore, and other subjects / by the Right Hon. Professor F. Max Müller.

  • Friedrich Max Müller
Date:
1901
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    PAGE Pantheism not tenable. Fate and will may coexist ...» The conscious love of God may spring from a love of good and of man Fanatical devotion has led to great evils Religion begins with kindness “ Religious” wars, persecutions, tests, bigotry, and exclusiveness are irreligious Ignorance is irreligious Intolerance irreligious There should be no fear of truth Hostility to reason raises a barrier against religion .... Both religion and morality have gained strength from the age of reason Sophistry, or false reasoning, generally favoured by vested interest, persuades against true reasoning and private judgment Reason no more deserves condemnation than emotion Is anything more dangerous than superstition ? Reason pervades everything that is best, and is the smew of religious life Right theory must be right in practice Reason the rock on which the enduring Church will lise The popular creeds and theologies of the world have insisted on all kinds of errors, idol-worship, ceremonies, ritual, formalities, falsities; and have exacted horrible penalties from the unorthodox Mahometan, Asiatic, African, Roman, Russian, and English bigotry and persecutions For God these errors, rites, oppressions, and atrocities are com- mitted, but do they belong to Him at all ? Would not religion gain much from their cessation ? . • • « Divine service” is darkened by many blots,by much prolamts No creed was imposed by Christ His view of the religious man .' The Christian and Buddhist doctrines agree in teaching that man finds peace in the ideal of purest righteousness . . 7 8 8 9 % 9 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 13 13 13 14 14 18 21 21 22 22 23 23
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