The Cosmic Commonwealth (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cosmic Commonwealth Now our architectonic ideals are all in the keeping of religion. For what is religion 3 F rom one point of View, a struggling science. From another, a struggling art. The subject matter of religion, as a science, is supreme reality, the popular name for which is God. When man's vision of supreme reality becomes the object of desire rather than of thought, it transforms itself into his ultimate ideal. And to realize ultimate ideals is the function of religion, as an art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.