My thoughts lingered lovingly on this theology so well named "natural,"on its conscientiousness,its refusal to affirm what it did not prove,on its lack of dogmatic dictums and infallible revelations;yet it gave me the vision of a new sanction whereby man might order his life,a sanction from which was eliminated fear and superstition and romantic hope,a sanction whose doctrines--unlike those of the sentimental theology--did not fly in the face of human instincts and needs.Nor was it a theology devoid of inspiration and poetry,though poetry might be called its complement.With all that was beautiful and true in the myths dear to mankind it did not conflict,annulling only the vicious dogmatism of literal interpretation.In this connection I remembered something that Krebs had said--in our talk about poetry and art,--that these were emotion,religion expressed by the tools reason had evolved.Music,he had declared,came nearest to the cry of the human soul....
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