Philosophy and Specific Problems [pp. 208-232]

THE PRINCE TON RE VIEW.
man "makes God his strength." He becomes a sharer in the
divine life.
But all this description is fanciful, and the well-known apparent facts which substantiate it are illusory, if all relations of
existence are mechanical. The relations here described can
only be conceived as organic, hence as spiritual. Philosophy,
in creating and upholding the science of spiritual reality, creates
and maintains the true science not only of Nature, on the side
of her purposeful, living reality, but also of man, in society, art,
and religion. These three interests-these three orders or classes
.of facts, and any others that may resemble them-must find in
philosophy, as we have been contemplating it and as history
more or less perfectly exhibits it, their justification before the
:forum of intelligence. They must find it here or nowhere.
And here indeed they do find it.
GEORGE S. MORRIS.
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