GOD IN NATURE
Sir,-Mr. Cooney says, romantically, | that Nature is an unfortunate mixture of good and evil. Still, nothing can be done about it. Nature is wonderfully revealing and inspiring to those who approach her in a spirit of reverent inquiry. But of course she is as unresponsive to senseless criticism as a sphinx. Man is completely baffled by countless mysteries in life-mysteries that ought to teach him how very little, relatively speaking, he knows, or ever can know. Far wiser for him to trust his heart more and his head less. Admittedly, the impulses of the heart must be under the sway of reason, but not in complete subjection to anything so inherently erratic. Those who have been stricken with grief in this war will feel intuitively that it is the heart and not the head that speaks to their loved ones across the great Void. They will also feel that the desolating view about a " hypothetical God" is entirely wrong; that their loved ones have not died in vain, and that they will meet them again when they too shall have crossed the bar.
J. E.
HAMILL
(Rotorua).
Sir, -- Your correspondent Lionel Cooney gate-crashes into the subject "God in Nature" with "a hypothetical God." This puts him off-side absolutely, for your previous correspondents spoke of God. |
ROB
(Ahipara).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 167, 4 September 1942, Page 3
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220GOD IN NATURE New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 167, 4 September 1942, Page 3
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