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3. This does not imply that the moral consciousness is not
gradually evolved, or that each individual's conscience
is infallible, or that our moral judgements in detail
are as certain as mathematical judgements, or that the
detailed rules of human conduct are applicable to God, . . 63

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4. Corollaries:

(_a_) Belief in the objectivity of our moral judgements
logically implies belief in God, . . . . . . . . . . . 69
(_b_) If God aims at an end not fully realized here, we
have a ground for postulating Immortality, . . . . . . 77
(_c_) Evil must be a necessary means to greater good, . . 79

5. In what sense this 'limits God.' Omnipotence=ability
to do all things which are in their own nature
possible, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

LECTURE IV

DIFFICULTIES AND OBJECTIONS, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

1. _Is the world created?_ There may or may not be a
beginning of the particular series of physical events
constituting our world. But, even if this series has a
beginning, this implies some previous existence which
has no beginning.

2. _Is the whole-time series infinite?_ Time must be
regarded as objective, but the 'antinomies' involved
in the nature of Time cannot be resolved, . . . . . . . . 90

3. _Are Spirits created or pre-existent?_ The close
connexion and correspondence between mind and body
makes for the former view. Difficulties of
pre-existence--heredity, etc., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

4. _An Idealism based on Pre-existence without God_ is
open to the same objections and others. Such a system
provides no mind (_a_) in which and for which the whole
system exists, or (_b_) to effect the correspondence
between mind and body, or (_c_) to allow of a purpose
in the Universe; without this the world is not rational, . 96

5. _The human mind (i.e. consciousness) not apart of the
divine Consciousness_, though in the closest possible
dependence upon God. The Universe a Unity, but the
Unity is not that of Self-Consciousness, . . . . . . . . . 101

6. _There is no 'immediate' or 'intuitive' knowledge of
God_. Our knowledge is got by inference, like knowledge
of our friend's existence, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

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7. _Religion and Psychology_. It is impossible to base
Religion upon Ps