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acceptance of instruction in darkness, and of support 

 where power has failed ; of support hoped for and 

 longed for, and of instruction looked for with presenti- 

 ment. Religion does not, indeed, contradict, affront, 

 and suppress reason, but it confessedly transcends 

 reason, and in its interior doctrines and agencies re- 

 mains to reason essentially incomprehensible and 

 inscrutable, to be accepted not in knowledge, but on 

 trust. 



(3) The New DocUine. — This declares : Reason 

 and religion have an intrinsic harmony ; their har- 

 mony is that of cause and effect, of fountain and 

 stream, of enfolder and enfolded. Here reason is 

 viewed as the real source of religion, and real religion 

 as the outcome and self-completion of reason : reli- 

 gion owes its being to reason, has no complete reality 

 except through its reasonableness, and takes all its 

 final laws from reason. 



Thus, according to the New Doctrine the harmony 

 rests, not on authority, but on reason itself ; or, let us 

 say, it rests not on authority as authority, — as com- 

 pulsory decree or magisterial edict, — but on the 

 autJiority of reason, on the autonomy of each rational 

 being as a rational being. The harmony is the im- 

 mutable harmony of reason with itself. In the New 

 Doctrine as compared with the Old, the order of 

 dependence and the source of authority are both 



