...is obviously of vital moment. Yet at page 109 it disappears, and we are only told that ' the esience of religion is the strong and ! earnest direction of the emotions and desires toward an ideal object, recognized as of the highest excellence, and rightfully paramount over all...

...morality) are only a part, and are indeed rather the fruits of tho religion than the religion itself. The essence of religion is the strong and earnest...objects of desire. This condition is fulfilled by the lleligion of Humanity in as eminent a degree, and in as high a sense, as by the supernatural religions...

...not be regarded as a necessary property of religion, should, a few pages afterwards, pen the words, "The essence of religion is the strong and earnest...as rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire."f In truth, however, the whole essay is utterly vitiated by the fact, that in Ids estimate...

...imagination and feelings in their idealizing mood. " The essence of religion," he says, " is the strongest and earnest direction of the emotions and desires...over all selfish objects of desire. This condition," he makes bold to add, " is fulfilled by the religion of humanity in as eminent a degree, and in as...

...indeed rather the fruits of religion than the religion itself. The essence of religion," he continues, " is the strong and earnest direction of the emotions...objects of desire. This condition is fulfilled by the Eeligion of Humanity in as eminent a degree, and in as high a sense, as by the supernatural religions,...

...Professor Bain, " an affair of the feelings." 1 " The essence of religion," observes John Stuart Mill, " is the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and desires towards an ideal object." " It must be allowed," says Dr. Mansel,2 " that it is not through reasoning that men obtain their first...

...and paramount over all selfish objects of desire ? In what he says of the essence of religion being the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and desires towards an object of that kind, is he not being drawn by that passion of his for seizing above all else the ethical...

...Religion," Mill gives two different definitions or descriptions of religion. In the first he says that " the essence of religion is the strong and earnest...rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire." In the second statement he says : — "Religion, as distinguished from poetry, is the product of the...

...Religion," Mill gives two different definitions or descriptions of religion. In the first he says that " the essence of religion is the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and desires toward an ideal object, recognized as of the highest excel lence, and as rightfully paramount over...

...8 ' the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and desires toward an ideal object recognised as of the highest excellence, and as rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire.' He considers this to be fulfilled by the religion of humanity in as eminent a degree, and in as high...