Chapter VI
[1] This chapter is reprinted from the Harvard Theological Review for April, 1909.
[2] I have treated this matter more fully in my Approach to Philosophy, Chapters III and IV. At the close of that book the reader will find a selected bibliography of the subject.
[3] John Henry Newman: Apologia pro Vita Sua, p. 239. The whole book is of interest in this connection.
[4] Munro and Sellery: Mediaeval Civilization, p. 69.
[5] Fragments of Xenophanes, in Burnet’s Early Greek Philosophy, p. 115.
[6] Lucretius: De Rerum Natura, Book I, lines 1021-1028, translated by Munro.
[7] Isaiah 1:15-17.
[8] For a brief account of primitive religion, cf. J. B. Pratt’s Psychology of Religious Belief. For a fuller account, cf. F. B. Jevons’s Introduction to the History of Religion.
[9] Munro and Sellery: Op. cit., pp. 80, 75.
[10] A. H. Sayce: Babylonians and Assyrians, p. 253.
[11] A. Wiedemann: Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, p. 250.
[12] Cf. H. C. Warren’s Buddhism in Translation.
[13] The reader will find a good exposition of mysticism in Royce’s World and the Individual, First Series, Lectures II, IV, V.
[14] Cf., e. g., Epictetus: Discourses, Book II, Chapter VIII.
[15] Cf. Spinoza’s Ethics, passim, translated by Elwes.
[16] Cf. Royce’s account of Romanticism and Hegel, in his Spirit of Modern Philosophy, Lectures VI, VII. This motive, together with the motive of mysticism, appears in such writings as J. McT. E. McTaggart’s Studies in Hegelian Cosmology, Chapter IX; and A. E. Taylor’s Problem of Conduct, Chapter VIII.
[17] Thomas Hardy: The Dynasts, Part I, p. 5.
[18] John Davidson: A Rosary, p. 88.
[19] James: Pragmatism, p. 144. The whole chapter is a brilliant representation of the stand-point of moral idealism.
[20] G. K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday, pp. 278-279.