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Excerpt from Nature and Deity: A Study of Religion as a Quest of the Ideal The following essay is an attempt to find in the constitution of our humanity and in our general rela tions to nature the grounds of a religious philosophy considered as the general philosophy of life. The point of view is that of pure naturalism. And no need arises, within the scope of this inquiry, for the discussion of the various theories of knowing and being which have vexed philosophy and shaken the foundations of religion. Ontology, epistemology, and the moot questions of metaphysics, have no cli 1'ect bearing upon our conclusions in their main drift; and realist or idealist, theist, theosophist, or agnos tic, who should allow that the power which gives form and force to the law of life has given us also a natural means for the interpretation of this law might, for the purposes of this inquiry, waive the considera tion of ulterior problcms and search with us for the natural grounds of such vital or religious law. At any rate, we look no further than nature here for the basis of religious thought. The philosophy of relig ion is conceived as a form of natural philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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