CHAPTER IX 

 WILL AND GUIDANCE 



{Partially read to the Synthetic Society in February 1903.) 



The influence of the divine on the 



human, and on the material world, has been 



variously conceived in different ages, and 



various forms of difficulty have been at 



different times felt and suggested ; but 



always some sort of analogy between human 



action and divine action has had perforce 



to be drawn, in order to make the latter 



in the least intelligible to our conception. 



The latest form of difficulty is peculiarly 



deep-seated, and is a natural outcome of 



an age of physical science. It consists in 



denying the possibility of any guidance or 



control, not only on the part of a Deity, 



but on the part of every one of his creatures. 



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