God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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physics. J.W.N. Sullivan writes: “After all, why
should one suppose that nature must necessarily be
a thing which can be moulded by an engineer of the
nineteenth century in his workshop?”
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In response to Winwood Reade’s denigration of the
concept of another world, I would say: “After all,
what right has a philosoher from the twentieth
century to think that the external world must
necessarily be in accord with his own
suppositions?”
Winwood Reade failed to understand the plain fact
that reality is not dependent upon what is
externally mainfest. On the contrary, the external
itself is dependent upon reality. Our success lies in
accepting and conforming to reality, rather than
ignoring, rejecting or running counter to it. When it
is a reality that there is a God of this universe and
that all of us must appear before Him to be judged,
it becomes the bounden duty of each and every
individual, whether it be a Rousseau or an ordinary
layman, to be faithful to God. Winwood Reade does
not suggest that Rousseau and Goethe should bow
to reality: on the contrary, he expects reality to
