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What Is and What Might Be

CHAPTER VI
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And, far from wishing to limit its religious activities to the first forty minutes of the morning sessions, I hold that it should be actively religious through every minute of every school session, that whatever it does it should do to the glory of God.
But how does knowledge of God show itself?
Knowledge, so far as it is real, always shows itself in right bearing, and (if action is called for) in right action.

Knowledge of arithmetic and of other more or less abstract subjects, shows itself in the successful working of the corresponding problems, theoretical or practical as the case may be.
Knowledge of the laws of physical nature shows itself in practical mastery of the forces and resources of physical nature.

Knowledge of history and geography, in a right attitude towards the problems and sub-problems of these complex and comprehensive subjects, an attitude which may on occasion translate itself into right action.

And so on.
Knowledge of God, being a state or attitude of the soul as such, must show itself in the right bearing and the right action of the soul as such, in other words, of Man as Man,--not as mathematician, not as financier, not as sculptor, not as cricketer, but simply as Man.

Now Man as Man has to bear himself aright towards the world in which he finds himself, and in particular towards the world which touches him most closely and envelops him most completely,--the world of human life.


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