Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Were the Logos foreign to the finite world it would be impossible to comprehend how its problems could have a solution in His divine purposes. In so far as He is One, Rational, Absolute, and still the sufferer of all finite evils, these evils must have their solution and their explanation for Him, as elements which are faced, overcome, and rationalized, for His triumphant Spirituality...
...means of science. The object of science is to make out through experience the spiritual laws that govern the world. Thus thinkers of the early part of this century were idealists by nature but scientists by profession, uniting empirical research and philosophical thought. The doctrine of evolution is to comprehend the world of experience by means of idealistic postulates...
...Beginning at the culmination of the previous critical period, the third period is at first devoted to the study of the inner life, but is later led to fresh efforts to comprehend outer nature. It is throughout much influenced by natural science and by the newer study of history. In consequence, it develops the idea of Evolution. Its problem is the synthesis and reconciliation of our knowledge of outer nature with our understanding of the inner life...