Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation, / 10th Edition, 1890

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[120] Plat. Phaed. 98 B. Arist. Met.

[121] p. 455^b17. The references are to the Berlin edition.

[122] p. 199^a8, 18: 415^b17: 731^a24.

[123] p. 1070^a7, 1033^b8, 753^a3.

[124] Dorner, Hist. of Doct. i. p. 366.

[125] S. Athan. Contra Gentes, § 42.

[126] Morison's Service of Man, p. 48.

[127] Quoted by W. S. Lilly, Nineteenth Century, Aug. 1888, p. 292.

[128] Morison, Service of Man, p. 49.

[129] It is far from our purpose to undervalue the work of Dr. Martineau. No more earnest and vigorous, and so far as it goes, no truer defence of religion has been published in our day. But his strength lies mainly in his protest against what destroys religion, and in his uncompromising assertion of what religion, as a condition of its existence, demands. He has done little to shew us how these demands can be rationally satisfied, how the personal God, which religion demands, is even an intelligible idea. He wavers between a view which logically developed must result in pantheism, and a view implying a distinction in the Divine nature, which carries him far in the Trinitarian direction. More often he contents himself with leaving the speculative question alone, or storming the rational position by the forces of religion and morals. See A Study of Religion, vol. ii. p. 145 compared with p. 192.