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innate sense of Justice. Destroy this, and the
result is Atheism, pure and simple. Destruction of
the sense of Justice has honey-combed the churches,
and been the parent of modern Materialism. It is
true that MateriaHsm is not the logical, but the
actual result. The issue is not logically between an
Uujust God and no God, but between a God tha,t
inconceivable because Unjust; and a God that is
conceivable because Just, and therefore the issue of
the Supreme Reason.
But this philosophical concept of Divinity has
another and still wider bearing. It concerns not
only man's personal life, but determines his relations
to his fellow men. It is the basis of ethics, and
furthermore co-ordinates all his experience and all
his knowledge, and this leads to true wisdom. "To
know God is the Supreme Wisdom."
It will be urged by modern Theologians that this
view dethrones Christ. To this objection the answer
is that any other view orphans Humanity. It
is far more important that men should strive to
become Christs than that they should believe that
Jesus was Christ. If the Christ-state can be attained
by but one human being during the whole
evolution of the race, then the evolution of man is
a farce and human perfection an impossibility.
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