Ebook New Light From the Great Pyramid

Logic teaches that it is impossible to know anything apart from its relations to other things, both similar and dissimilar. Comparative anatomy in religion no more disproves the exist ence of the vital element of religion than comparative anatomy in physiology disproves the fact or explains the mystery of life, but comparative anatomy throws a ?ood of light upon the laws governing the birth, growth, and death of the physical or Visible organization alike of religions and of men. To doubt the fidelity to Christianity of a thinker solely because he has studied comparative religion, is like doubting one's belief in humanity as distinguished from the brute creation, because he has investigated the points of similarity and dissimilarity be tween the human species and the various types of the animal kingdom from mollusc to ape. That there is in religion something to investigate, the briefest consideration will make manifest. Obviously, religion has both form and substance, as an egg has shell and contents. But a bird, deprived of calcareous nutriment, cannot provide shells for her eggs. It does not follow from this, however, that the carbonate of lime originates either bird or eggs; still less does the fact that the bird turns the lime to account explain the origin of the lime itself.* In respect alike to theology.