God Arises
Challenge of Modern Knowledge
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light of modern knowledge, it is possible for him to
discard odd, conjectural beliefs and arrive at the
true nature of things by purely empirical methods.
T.R. Miles writes:
It might be said that metaphysicians of the
past have done something comparable to
writing a cheque without adequate funds in
the bank. They have used words without
proper ‘cash’ to back them; they have been
unable to give their words ‘cash-value’ in
terms of states of affairs.
‘The Absolute is incapable of evolution and
progress’ is a grammatically correct sentence;
but the words are like a dud cheque, and
cannot be ‘cashed’.
2
All those things, which were formerly attributed to
supernatural forces, are now wholly explainable in
terms of natural causes, modern thinking having it
that the “discovery” of God was a mere assumption
arising from ignorance. With the spread of
knowledge,
this
belief
has
automatically
disappeared. Julian Huxley writes:
