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How is religión still possiblc? This qucstion is posed by so ablc a thinker as Dr Mcrz as the qucstion of paramount importance, and he can find only a paradoxical answcr.It is a qucstion which seems to be takcn seriously by many olhcrwisc intclligcnt persons, who are thereby stranded in the end on all sorts of hidden sandbanks. They do not ask: How is walking still possiblc? They do not ask: How is hunger still possiblc? Yct it is rcally the same kind of qucstion.It is always inarvcllous to find how pcople worry themselvcs over unncccssary problcms, and spin the most fantastic webs of abstruse speeulation around eren the simplest things. Religión, if it is anything at all, must be a natural organic function, like walking, like cating, better still, like loving. For the closest analogy and, indecd, real rclationship, of religión, is with the function of rcproduction and the emo- tions of sex. The functions of cating and walking are more or Icss nccessary to lifc in their rhythmic recurrences, and it is legitímate in their absence to endeavour to stimulate them into action. But the function of religión, like that of love, is not nccessary to lifc, ñor may it with any certainty by sti

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Author

Julian Huxley

Publisher

Max Parrish

Published

1957

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Religious Studies