[80] Ibid., § 83.
[81] Plat. Rep. 377-385.
[82] Theaet. 176 C.
[83] H. Spencer, of course, follows Kuenen in assuming a polytheistic origin of Hebrew monotheism. See Kuenen, Religion of Israel, i. 223.
[84] It is strange that Mr. Darwin should have failed to see that this was the answer to his difficulty. It appeared to him, he tells us (Autobiography, p. 308), 'utterly incredible that if God were now to make a revelation to the Hindoos, he would permit it to be connected with the belief in Vishnu, Siva, &c., as Christianity is connected with the Old Testament.' Incredible, no doubt. But why? For the very reason which makes it 'incredible' that man should be evolved directly from a fish, as Anaximander is said to have taught, and not incredible that he should be evolved, as Darwin teaches, from one of the higher vertebrates. The very idea of development, whether in species or religions, implies a law, and order in the development.
[85] S. Athan. De Incarn. c. xii.
[86] It is needless to say that this section is largely indebted to Dean Church's Discipline of the Christian Character.
[87] Edinb. Rev., Apr. 1888, p. 512.
[88] Discipline of the Christian Character, p. 85.
[89] Ibid., p. 87.