Occultism Old and New
Men are rational but not always reasonable. Religion is reasonable, but religious practices are not always rational. Just now we are seeing how the failure to make religion rational makes men unreasonable. There are more things in the universe than our reason can grasp, but the true explanation of n...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1920
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The biblical world
Year: 1920, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 287-293 |
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| Summary: | Men are rational but not always reasonable. Religion is reasonable, but religious practices are not always rational. Just now we are seeing how the failure to make religion rational makes men unreasonable. There are more things in the universe than our reason can grasp, but the true explanation of no fact can be irrational. Whatever our feeling is as to the legitimacy of the possibility of communication with the dead, we shall do well to take warning from the past. The unexplained is not necessarily the unexplainable. This article shows that even most respectable people may be primitive in their superstitions. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The biblical world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/476396 |