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“All students of the philosophy of religion know that Mr C. C. J. Webb, fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford, has, within the last few years, won for himself a position in the front rank among philosophical critics and defenders of religion. Mr Webb’s argument [in this book] amounts to a philosophical defense of the Christian conception of and belief in God. Mr Webb’s emphasis falls wholly on the value of ‘religious experience’ as affording the profoundest clues to the nature of the world we live in. He holds that religious experience testifies to the reality of God and of the worshipper’s personal intercourse with God. More than this, he holds that the doctrine of the trinity, with its distinction of three persons within the Godhead, renders in language admittedly metaphorical, a differentiation within the all-enfolding divine life which is required for an adequate interpretation of religious experience in its highest, i.e., Christian form.”—New Repub

“A fine and characteristic specimen of the best type of modern Oxford philosophy. Unlike so many modern English philosophers, Mr Webb has an admirably pure and simple vocabulary. It is the more to be regretted that his syntax is often obscure and even inaccurate.”

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“Mr Clement C. J. Webb has written a book on ‘God and personality’ which is a remarkable achievement in more ways than one. He has managed to discuss a difficult and abstract problem in delightfully clear and often beautiful language. And in doing so he has shown that he possesses in considerable degree the quality of which real philosophers are made. Mr Webb’s answers are interesting, and in the main we may agree with them, but they are certainly not incontestable.” Lincoln MacVeagh

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“From Aristotle to Bergson, from the fathers of the church to Benedetto Croce, from Dante to H. G. Wells, he moves with equal mastery, and when he measures swords with Bradley or Bosanquet, the honors are not all on their side.” R. F. A. H.

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WEBB, SIDNEY, and WEBB, BEATRICE (POTTER) (MRS SIDNEY WEBB).[[2]] Constitution for the socialist commonwealth of Great Britain. *$4.25 (*13s 6d) Longmans 335