Science, supported by reason, assures discount ugg boots us that the laws ofnature - the laws of realistic phenomena - are neversuspended at the prayers of man. To this conclusion theeducated world is now rapidly coming. If, nevertheless, menthoroughly convinced of this still choose to believe in theefficacy of prayer, reason and science are incompetent toconfute them. The belief must be tried elsewhere, - it mustbe transferred to the tribunal of conscience, or to ametaphysical court, in which reason has no jurisdiction.
     　　This by no means implies that reason, in its own province, isto yield to the 'feeling' which true religion outlet so many cite as theinfallible authority for their 'convictions.'
     　　We must not be asked to assent to contradictory propositions.
     　　We must not be asked to believe that injustice, cruelty, andimplacable revenge, are not execrable because the Bible tellsus they were habitually manifested by the tribal god of theIsraelites. The fables of man's fall and of the redemptionare fraught with the grossest violation of our moralconscience, and will, in time, be repudiated accordingly. Itis idle to say, as the Church says, 'these are mysteriesabove our human reason.' They ugg boots discount outlet are fictions, fabricationswhich modern research has traced to their sources, and whichno unperverted mind would entertain for a moment. Fanaticalbelief in the truth of such dogmas based upon 'feeling' haveconfronted all who have gone through the severe ordeal ofdoubt. A couple of centuries ago, those who held them wouldhave burnt alive those who did not. Now, they have toconsole themselves with the comforting thought of the firethat shall never be quenched. But even Job's patience couldnot stand the self-sufficiency of his pious reprovers. Thesceptic too ugg boots cheap sale may retort: 'No doubt but ye are the people, andwisdom shall die with you.'
     　　Conviction of this kind is but the convenient substitute forknowledge laboriously won, for the patient pursuit of truthat all costs - a plea in short, for ignorance, indolence,incapacity, and the rancorous bigotry begotten of them.
     　　The distinction is not a purely sentimental one - not abelief founded simply on emotion. There is a physical world- the world as known to our senses, and there is a psychicalworld - the world of feeling, consciousness, buy cheap uggs online thought, andmoral life.
     　　Granting, if it pleases you, that material phenomena may bethe causes of mental phenomena, that 'la pensee est leproduit du corps entier,' still the two cannot be thought ofas one. Until it can be proved that 'there is nothing in theworld but matter, force, and necessity,' - which will neverbe, till we know how we lift our hands to our mouths, - thereremains for us a world of mystery, which reason never caninvade.