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...interesting to see your May 5 article on Professor Stace's contribution to current irrationalism. Unfortunately, he is not alone in claiming that knowledge of the existence of God must come through a "fif" (funny internal feeling), rather than through reason. There are many today, however, for whom fifs are not enough...
...Philosopher Stace, please tell...
...Philosopher Stace, to be sure, uses "the devil" in a purely metaphorical context...
...Professor Stace's substitute for theology, God and man live in entirely separate worlds-an "eternal order" and a "natural order." Man cannot discover the eternal order by his reasoning power, or through any system of belief. He can only experience it. "The mystic," writes Stace, "lives in both orders"; all men, however, have within them a consciousness of God which needs only to be developed. This sense of the eternal world, which Stace calls "moral intuition"-plus the testimony of the mystics-has given man his sense of moral values, which a purely natural explanation of the universe...
Utterly Other. Philosopher Stace is happy that most modern Christians (except Roman Catholics) tend to play down the rational proofs of God. "Attempts at proof not only fail of their own purpose and so do no good to religion, but . . . they positively degrade it. For their effect is to drag down the divine and the eternal from their own sphere into the sphere of the natural and the temporal...