Excerpt from Intellectual Religion
By "Intellectual Religion" I mean Religion; just as, when I say, "It is a sunny day," I mean Day, The day is no less day because sunny, nor is Religion less if intellectual. Intellect and the religious intuition are in accord with each other. Indeed all intuitions are profitless unless supplemented by Intellect. The babe with equal avidity stuffs a pebble and a berry into its mouth until experience, manifesting itself through intellect, tells it which of the two is food. So it is with religious truth.
We must begin with a definition. What is Religion? I define it as the effort of man to do Gods will, including, as a matter of course, all attempts to ascertain His will, and, therefore, all ideas of God, because from our conceptions of His character must come our inferences of what He wants us to do.
Several causes, set forth in the following chapters, have forced upon me an intellectual conviction of God.
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