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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO INVESTIGATIONS RESPECTING GOD. In the preceding Lecture controverted questions relating to religion were, with the aid of psychology, discussed. In this, and the next Lecture, attention is given to controverted questions relating to God. The object of this Lecture is to investigate the origin of the idea of God. The idea we have of God is first explained. It is then shown that it cannot possibly be our own creation. The question is next examined whether it is in any sense innate; here the three senses in which an idea may be conceived to be innate are pointed out, and it is proved that the idea of God is not innate in any of them. It is then asked whether the idea is to be ascribed to a supersensual intuition; Morell's views on this point having been stated, and the nature of a supersensual intuition explained, arguments are urged in favour of a negative reply to the inquiry. Cousin's theory of an Impersonal Reason, the source to which he assigns it, is next described, and his arguments for the impersonality of reason are shown to be insufficient. It is finally shown that the idea may be empirically acquired.] In my last Lecture I discussed, with the help of psychology, some controverted questions relating to religion. I now proceed, with similar help, to treat of the most important questions connected with our knowledge of God, considered as prior to, and therefore independent of, any supernatural revelation. There are three questions in reference to the idea of God to which I shall invite your attention. Eirst, What is man's idea of God ? Secondly, Whence have we obtained it ? and, Thirdly, What ground have we for regarding it as objectively true ? The first question What is man's idea of God may at first view seem difficult ...