Religion is not a product of fantastic imagination, it is the greatest of realities, the one truth to the religious man. They know well that faith and fable are " as the poles apart," since fable is in itself a thing without faith, and faith is the very sentiment of truth, which should accompany man even unto death. Such reasoning, however, will not be accepted by religious persons. Fable and religion.- I have frequently heard it said that the education of the imagination on a basis of fancy prepares the soul of the child for religious education and that an education based on "reality," as in this method we would adopt, is too arid, and tends to dry up the founts of spiritual life. How much time and strength man has lost and is losing by this error! Just as vice, which is an exercise of function without purpose, wastes the body until it becomes diseased, so imagination unsustained by truth consumes the intelligence until it assumes characteristics akin to the mental characteristics of the insane. to build but when it does not elaborate from reality and truth, instead of raising a divine structure it forms incrustations which compress the intelligence and prevent the light from penetrating thereto. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. OL1542567W Page_number_confidence 92.81 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210823111429 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 214 Scandate 20210819042944 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781851091140 Tts_version 4.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:02:24 Associated-names Simmonds, Florence Hutchinson, Lily Boxid IA40220612 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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