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Contents - Nature of God - p. 7 - Being of God; Unsatisfactory forms of proof - page 28 - The Argument in Outline for the Being of God - page 46 - Proof of the Being of God Found in the Organic World - page 79 - Proof of the Being of God Found in the Vegetable Kingdom - page 122 - Proof of the Being of God Found in the Animal Kingdom - page 159 - Proof of the Being of God Found in the Rational Kingdom - page 190 - The Proofs of the goodness of God - page 261 - Immortality - page 288 Index
§2. An argument for the being of God involves an interpretation of the universe in its origin, character and destiny. It thus searches the mind for its most penetrative intuitions, and calls on the judgment for its most sober and extended combinations. The proofs for the being of God have gained data rapidly with the growth of knowledge, but the difficulties of their interpretation and coherent construction have increased in the same ratio. The argument as a whole thus presents as much perplexity to-day as ever before. While the grounds of belief have expanded on the one side, those of unbelief have equally enlarged themselves on the other. Faith, as hitherto, remains a triumph of the rationally constructive nature.
No argument of this character can rest simply on the intuitions. We cannot pass from an idea to a fact. However coherent the ideas of the reason may be within themselves, however serviceable they may be in the comprehension of facts, they do not involve in their ideal form the very facts. The truths of geometry express controlling relations in the outside world. They do not prove its being. The a priori argument of Anselm involved this error, an effort to make the inner coherence and scope of an idea a proof not of its validity merely as an idea, but of the existence of a fact corresponding to it.
The argument runs in this form. The human mind possesses the idea of the most perfect Being. But this idea includes that of necessary existence. "Surely that than which a greater cannot be conceived, cannot exist in the mind alone. For if we
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