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VI. The summarised result as to the Art-Principle in Poetry : 

 the specific criterion of Poetry, as such; whether the 

 list of Fine Arts should be extended by including a 

 sixth art — Prose Literature 21 1 



THE RIGHT RELATION OF REASON TO 

 RELIGION 



The varied views, Conceptual and Historical, of the relation be- 

 tween Reason and Religion : their Essential Antagonism vs. 

 their Potential Harmony; the Three Doctrines of their pos- 

 sible harmonisation — the Old, the Middle, and the New . 217 



I. Detailed Statement of the New Doctrine, or Rationalism, 

 and of the steps to be taken in proof of it; the two 

 Religious Methods, (i) of Authority, or Declaration, 

 (2) of Reason, or Conviction 224 



n. The Contrast between these Methods not to be con- 

 founded with that between Romanism and Protestant- 

 ism; rather, a division between Two Schools of Thought 

 in all religious Denominations ..... 226 



III. Rejection of the Method of Authority on the ground 



(i) of its Logical Contradictions, and (2) of the Per- 

 petual Elusion of Search, characterising its assumed 

 Divine Source ........ 230 



IV. Its conflict with the Essential Spirit of Christianity, the 



Religion founded in the recognition of the Free Reality 



of the Individual Mind . . . . . .241 



V. The argument, both Indirect and Direct, in behalf of the 

 Method of Reason as the only one germane to Fulfilled 

 Religion. The Direct Argument, (i) from the Tacit 

 Admissions in the history of Apologetics, shown by 

 their changes regarding External and Internal evi- 

 dences; (2) from the Successive Steps in the Historical 

 Development of religion ; (3) from the Logical Im- 

 plication of Christian Theism in the method of Natural 

 Science. The subtle indirectness of the real argument 

 to God from the Rationality of the World . . . 260 



