[87-3] “The one relation which is the ground of all true religion is a total dependence upon God.” William Law, Address to the Clergy, p. 12. “The essential germ of the religious life is concentrated in the absolute feeling of dependence on infinite power.” J. D. Morell, The Philosophy of Religion, p. 94. (New York, 1849.) This accomplished author, well known for his History of Philosophy, is the most able English exponent of the religious views of Schleiermacher and Jacobi.
[90-1] “Weil sie die Welt eingerichtet haben.” Creuzer, Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Vœlker, Bd. I. s. 169. It is not of any importance that Herodotus’ etymology is incorrect: what I wish to show is that he and his contemporaries entertained the conception of the gods as the authors of order.
[92-1] This distinction is well set forth by A. von Humboldt, Kosmos, p. 388 (Phila., 1869).
[93-1] “Ueberall den Zufall zu verbannen, zu verhindern, dass in dem Gebiete des Beobachtens und Denkens er nicht zu herrschen scheine, im Gebiete des Handelns nicht herrsche, ist das Streben der Vernunft.” Wilhelm von Humboldt, Ueber Goethe’s Hermann und Dorothea, iv.
[93-2] “Iste ordo pulcherrimus rerum valde bonarum.” Confessiones, Lib. xiii. cap. xxxv.
[94-1] “The notion of a God is not contained in the mere notion of Cause, that is the notion of Fate or Power. To this must be added Intelligence,” etc. Sir Wm. Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics, Lecture ii.
[96-1] The Unseen Universe, p. 60.
[97-1] James Frederick Ferrier, Lectures on Greek Philosophy, p. 13 (Edinburgh, 1866). On a question growing directly out of this, to wit, the relative character of good and evil, Mr. J. S. Mill expresses himself thus: “My opinion of this doctrine is, that it is beyond all others which now engage speculative minds, the decisive one between moral good and evil for the Christian world.” Examination of Hamilton’s Philosophy, p. 90.
[98-1] First Principles, pp. 108, 127.
[99-1] Lectures on Metaphysics, Vol. I., p. 690.