God Arises
Review
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completely out of step with the human mind. On
this point, J.W.N. Sullivan has made a very
pertinent quotation from Bertrand Russell:
That man is the product of such causes which
had no prevision of the end they were
achieving; that his origin, his growth, his
hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but
the outcome of accidental collocations of
atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of
thought and feeling can preserve an
individual life beyond the grave; that all
labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the
inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of
human genius, are destined to extinction in
the vast death of the solar system. And that
the whole temple of man’s achievement must
inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a
universe in ruins. All these things, if not quite
beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that
no philosophy which rejects them can hope to
stand.
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This extract sums up the irreligious, materialistic
school of thought. According to such thinking, our
