Excerpt from Divine Immanence an Essay: On the Spiritual Significance of Matter

Much of the best philosophical writing in England, of late years, has been critical, or, in the technical and proper sense of the word, sceptical. But critical and sceptical phases, in the progress of thought, can never, from their very nature, be other than temporary things: they sift and question the constructions of the past; but only with a view to prepare for those that are to come. For the world, after all, is a fact; sun, moon, and stars are real; men and women live and love; the moral law is strong; - in a word, the universe exists, and some positive account of it must needs be true; it can never be finally explained by a negation. Hence the result of recent criticism has been to make the need of reconstruction more apparent; and men are consequently feeling, in various directions, after positive, synthetic ways of thought.

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