The Freedom with which the Truth makes free. The Nature, Conditions, and Limits of Logical Proof. Logic naturally falls to be considered first. The threefold use of the term Consistency. The Syllogism a device for ensuring Consistency of Statement. The Laws of Thought, of which Logic is the Science. The fundamental Law of Identity upon which the Cogency of Logical Logical Conclusion radically hypothetical. The difficulty of drawing the Line the key to the failure of Logic Conclusions from the examination of Logical Method recapitulated. The mutual relation of Fact, Truth, and Law as modes of Reality. Truth the Interpretation of Fact. Logic advanced to Natural Science. Scientific Classification by Definition and by Type. Science is Logic applied to the Cognitive Mastery of Nature. That the World is a Cosmos is the Postulate of Science. The conviction of an existing Uniformity of Process is the Faith of Laws of Nature an ambiguous expression. Scientific Investigation implies Mind diffused in Nature answering The Inquiry advanced to Philosophy. The Scientific must lead forwards to the Philosophical. Faith in the existence of Uniformities in the Order of Nature The genetic idea of all Philosophy is the instinct for Unity in the This exhibited and certified to us historically. The pioneers of Philosophy in Greece. The succession of the Early Schools of Greek Thought exhibiting the Evolution of Philosophical ideas. The Principles of Absolute Unity, of Infinite Plurality, and of an The Universal presented in the Particular, the Permanent as it gives meaning to the Fleeting, and the Eternal as it gleams forth The Intellectual rendering of the Life of Faith. Conclusions recapitulated. The Limitations of Philosophical Speculation and Results. Our Total Personality not yet claimed. A corresponding Surplusage of the Environing Reality still remains The Inquiry advanced into the realm of Aesthetic Emotion and The claim of every man to be justly judged. The Limitations of this Present Life from the Moral standpoint. The tacit appeal for a Human Ideal actually realised. The difficulties of application to Conduct of Moral Rule arising from Continuity of Development. Moral Life begins where there first emerges to view in the outlook of any Life a Better than the Present, a Better that claims the The Ideal is a Manifestation of the Real, and like Duty claims the A Vision of our Real Self, that which we ought to be. The Categorical Imperative being an Absolute Claim implies a Survey of our position. Mysticism legitimate and illegitimate. Mysticism legitimated by the Surplusage of our Contact with Reality Final re-statement of Motive, Aim and Method of this Inquiry. The core of the Christian conception of Religion, the eleva- tion of the human Spirit into fellowship with the Divine Life, then, the determining idea of Religion, and Fellowship its Life and Salvation compared. The Principle of Fellowship illustrated in Nature. Analysis of the expression πιστεύειν εἰς Χρίστον. The Ideal of Human Life a harmony of Repose with Aspiration: and these in a Supreme Person. Truth exhibited in graduated series. Personal Truth the highest form of Reality. The reasonableness of the great sayings, 'I am the Truth'; In Religion, Logic possesses only a very limited application. The Science of Theology does not exhaust Religion, which is Life Natural Science a province of the perfected life of man. Its Contribution to our conception of Religion, as well in what it Scientific investigation a tracking of God's thoughts as they appear Thus it is a pursuit not only Moralised, but Spiritualised. Philosophy as free to the Christian believer as Science, bringing a richer offering to the feet of his Sovereign King. It is the Search of the Mind for a Unity wherein it may rest: an Its problem is the recognition of the Unchanging in the Fleeting, Its attempted conciliation of contradictory conceptions answers to The realm of the Beautiful, the fair world of the Artist and Poet, is Its genetic idea the presentation of the Absolute Beauty in a This a key to Creation as the Expression of the Poet Supreme: a Finally, the Ethical Order exhibits Truth and Beauty meeting in This the realm Universal. 'I come to do Thy will' the interpretation of Duty, Its mysterious claim explained. The Infinite Will touches our Will. Its Ideal actualised in Jesus Christ. Ethics completed in Religion. It receives its transfiguration in the revelation of the Love of God. Finally, all the ideal points of human aspiration, Truth, Beauty, NOTES. Pages 208-239. Pages 240-288. |