Thoughts on Religion by George John Romanes
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ridiculed in the _Candid Examination_; see above, p. 11. Romanes
intended at this point to consider at greater length his old views 'on causation as due to being _qua_ being.'--ED.] [49] See, however, Aubrey Moore in _Lux Mundi_, pp. 94-96, and Le Conte, _Evolution in its Relation to Religious Thought_, pp. 335, ff. [N.B. The references not enclosed in brackets are the author's, not mine.--ED.] [50] [Nothing more however was written than what follows immediately.--ED.] [51] [The author intended further to show the vacuity of this theory and point out how Mill himself appears to perceive it by his introduction after the term 'invariably' of the term 'unconditionally'; he refers also to Martineau, _Study of Religion_, i. pp. 152, 3.--ED.] [52] [Romanes' thoughts about Free Will are more lucidly expressed in an essay published subsequently to these Notes in _Mind and Motion and Monism_, pp. 129 ff.--ED.] [53] [See above, p. 31.--ED.] [54] _Contemporary Review_, July 1886. [But the 'ultimate difficulty' referred to above would seem to be the relation of manifold dependent human wills to the One Ultimate and All-embracing Will.--ED.] ยง 4. FAITH. |
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