Yet the difference in tone and language
must strike us, so soon as it is philosophy that speaks: that change should
remind us that even if the function of religion and that of reason coincide,
this function is performed in the two cases by very different organs. Religions
are many, reason one. Religion consists of conscious ideas, hopes, enthusiasms,
and objects of worship; it operates by grace and flourishes by prayer. Reason,
on the other hand, is a mere principle or potential order, on which indeed we
may come to reflect but which exists in us ideally only, without variation or
stress of any kind. We conform or do not conform to it; it does not urge or
chide us, nor call for any emotions on our part other than those naturally
aroused by the various objects which it unfolds in their true nature and
proportion. Religion brings some order into life by weight A. it is unaware of ultimate goals B. it is unimaginative C. its findings are exact and final D. it resembles society and art 我来回答: 提交
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