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What Is and What Might Be

CHAPTER I
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If he will not obey it, he will be lost.
There is another aspect of the idea of a supernatural revelation on which it is necessary to touch.

As intercourse between Nature and the Supernatural world takes place, not in the natural order of things but at the good pleasure of the Supernatural God, revelation must needs be conceived of as a highly-specialised process.

A revelation which was addressed to the whole human race, and to which the whole human race was able to respond, could scarcely be regarded as of supernatural origin.

The distinction between the supernaturalness of the appeal and the naturalness of the response would gradually tend to efface itself: for "what is universal is natural," and the voice which every man was able to recognise would come at last to be regarded as a voice from within oneself.

If the supernatural character of an alleged revelation is to be established, its uniqueness must be duly emphasised.


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