Abstract

Dr. Williams first focuses on human faith, the creative power which seeks to change possibilities into actualities, and then extrapolates "God," a limited, struggling, experimenting teleological force in the universe as a whole, a force which can be addressed either as "Thou" or "It." Faith is not something which men can consciously control, not mere fancy, but a quasi-objective force which can control a man if he allows it to do so. The comments on problems such as the place of rites and ceremonies, immortality, development of moral character, and the relation of individual rights to social institutions, although not rigorously developed, reveal an honest and generous mind.—S. A. S.