Excerpt from Christian Theism and a Spiritual Monism: God, Freedom, and Immorality in View of Monistic Evolution

He has sought to lead gradually up to this Spiritual Monism, and to set it forth as clearly as possible. If he has ventured to touch on some aspects of the current Idealistic Philosophy, it is because he believes that its conclusions need to be reached in a more objective and direct manner. To some extent what is attempted is pioneer work, but he has found much help and encourage ment from the writings of Professor Lloyd Morgan, with which he only recently became acquainted. Sir Oliver Lodge - whose interest in the religious problem and contributions towards its solution in harmony with Science are to be warmly welcomed - speaks of any such attempt as is here set forth as a most ambitious one, not likely to be com plete. But he adds the encouraging remark that many may strive to make some contribution towards the great end, and those who think they have a contribution to make, or such a revelation entrusted to them, are bound to express it to the best of their ability, and leave it to their contemporaries and successors to assimilate such portions of it as are true, and to develop it further (life and Matter, p. This is reassuring, and it indicates the Spirit in which the present work is offered.

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