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Renan's idea of God was that the highest there is in man is in itself God, and this is expressed in the beautiful. Thus God is an attribute of man, and therefore man must strive for perfection, to be attained through the intellect. Renan said that prayer is not needed...
...while the real education of the college is built upon its magnificent muscular development, education in its best sense mean that the intellect is trained so that it can be exercised by its owner - that it has ideas, that it can express its ideas lucidly n any subject that may come before...
This is the climax of Newman's thought as it is the end of all wisdom, - to know the living and the true God. It is the supreme triumph of his intellect, to will away the world and stand in the presence of his Creator. It is this singleness of purpose that gives to his personality its marvellous power over men, - the power of one who sees farther and clearer, whose life is wrapped up in the divine, whose meditations are of the Eternal. For it is the personality of Newman that is significant. As in his religious thought...
...again in 1880, Dr. Porter supervised the revision of Webster's Dictionary. He was the author of the celebrated book on "The Human Intellect," published in 1868 which has become an accepted text-book in many American colleges. He also wrote a large number of metaphysical works...
...should bring to the consideration of religion every part of ourselves, not the intellect only. We should judge always by that which is highest, and that is Christ Signs, wonders, and excitements we need them not. We have not seen but have felt that Christ was the eternal words of life, and that He is the Holy...