When religion degenerates into empty ritualism or into ignorant superstition, thoughtful men may abandon it altogether because they feel that it has no real satisfaction to offer them. They cannot, however, ignore the necessity of finding some rational answer to the problems which the world poses for them. The mysteries of the universe call for explanation unless one is content to be such a dolt that he never is disturbed by them.
Philosophy is the attempt to correlate all existing knowlege about the universe into a systematic form and to integrate human experience with it... ... In any case, philosophy never depended upon a revelation from God. It has always assumed the potential adequacy of man to understand his own world and to decide his own fate...
The formulation of knowledge into a coherent system should be governed by the rules of logic which man has devised...
Quoted from Merrill C. Tenney.
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