Note 53 — I. FAITH.
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Cf. on all this, an excellent statement in Mark Pattison's Sermons, Serm. 7.
[54] It is not intended to deny that the mind can ever know itself, but only that such knowledge can ever be won by methods of empirical observation.
[55] The word 'super-natural' is obviously misleading, since it seems to imply that the higher spiritual levels of life are not 'natural.' Of course, the higher the life, the more intensely 'natural' it is; and the nature of God must be the supreme expression of the natural. But the word 'super-natural' is, in reality, only concerned with the partial and conventional use of 'nature,' as a term under which we sum up all that constitutes this present and visible system of things.
[56] It is this point of arrest which is reached and revealed by the process of Evolution, under the pressure of Natural Selection.
[57] Faith is spoken of, here and elsewhere, in its perfect and true form, as if unthwarted by the misdirection, and hurt of sin.
[58] Cf. pp. 105-107.