“We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?” IdeasCareReligiousPositionTheoryElementsEssenceConstitutionMereDrivenDoctrineDistinctionLatterSubordinates Author:William Ernest Hocking
“The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.” GivingIdeasLawResultsQualityFailingConcrete Author:William Ernest Hocking
