“What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.” FirstsDoeHas BeensCharacterViewsEssentialsStatementsDistinctionJustifyEvidentEffectivenessSubordinatesSupremacyFruitfulness Book:The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion Source: The meaning of God in human experience: philosophic study of religion
“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.” ThinkingWayYearsHumansTwoThreeIndividualSocialHuman BeingsResultsThousandImpulseNativeThriveThousand YearsVentureEvident Author:William Ernest Hocking
