RELIGION AS ADJUSTMENT 



and from penny-a-liners of no school, we hear 

 long arguments based upon the vague conno- 

 tations which the word " Unknowable " calls 

 up, without any reference to the precise sense 

 in which the symbol is used in Mr. Spencer*s 

 philosophy, — nay, without even a suspicion that 

 the symbol may have a precise value in some 

 measure purified from some such connotations. 

 At this stage of our exposition, it is enough to 

 suggest the fallaciousness of such argumenta- 

 tion, without characterizing it in detail. It is 

 enough to remind the reader that Deity is un- 

 knowable Justin so far as it is not manifested to 

 consciousness through the phenomenal world 

 — knowable just in so far as it is thus mani- 

 fested ; unknowable in so far as infinite and 

 absolute — knowable in the order of its phe- 

 nomenal manifestations : knowable, in a sym- 

 bolic way, as the Power which is disclosed in 

 every throb of the mighty rhythmic life of the 

 universe ; knowable as the eternal Source of a 

 Moral Law which is implicated with each ac- 

 tion of our lives, and in obedience to which lies 

 our only guaranty of the happiness which is in- 

 corruptible, and which neither inevitable mis- 

 fortune nor unmerited obloquy can take away. 

 Thus, though we may not by searching find out 

 God, though we may not compass infinitude or 

 attain to absolute knowledge, we may at least 

 know all that it concerns us to know, as intel- 

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