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Download or read book The Theological Review, 1875, Vol. 12 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Theological Review, 1875, Vol. 12: A Journal of Religious Thought and Life; Nos. XLVIII.-Li To civilized man the idea of God ari 1ves with instruction, which does but fructify a pre-existing germ. Without in struction, the idea is certainly not developed in the individual mind with the same inevitableness with which the mind develops the idea of sel£ But taking the whole of humanity, we may say that the idea of God is as proper to the race as that of self to the individual. A human being cast from infancy upon absolute solitude, might not have the idea of Divinity in any sense or shape awakened within him. If he did, it would in all likelihood be not the monotheistic idea, but some low form of polytheism or fetishism. Yet even that would be impossible without an innate aptitude for Theism in the soul. Without a prepared niche in human nature, no image occupying the place of Deity and receiving divine honours would ever have been set up. It is idle to talk of fear as possessing this deific power. F ear can make bugbears, but can never convert the bugbear into a God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.