Abram Herbert Lewis - Spiritual Sabbathism

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THE TEMPORAL AND THE ETERNAL 59
They may indeed be used to an evil end, but
it is only a few months since they enabled God's
servant, the lightning, to save from one ship more
lives than thunderbolts destroy in years. The impersonal
biological laws revered by Behring and
Kitasuto have saved the lives
of thousands of children,
and vastly increased the amount of spiritual
energy available on earth in the struggle against
sense and sin.
What is true of science is true of philosophy.
The great thinkers have been vastly influential in
establishing a conviction of the eternal in the hearts
of men. The men whom we have quoted and found
wanting are men whose systems sprang out of devotion
to goodness.
Plato's beatific vision of God's
thought cheered the hearts of Augustine and Athanasius.
Aristotle guided the thinking of the church
for a thousand years.
Spinoza has been called the
God-Intoxicated thinker, and his system glows with
a pure white light of religious fervor. Kant destroyed
systems for the sole purpose of establishing
the moral law.
observant interpreter of history.
FIchte was a soldier
of German liberty.
Hegel was no dreamer, but an
Huxley was the very soul
of honesty, and maintained that It is man's duty to
fight again the cruel method of nature. There Is
not, among the fifty-four philosophers whom we