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[英文原著]god the known and god the unknown《已知的上帝和未知的上帝》
God the Known and God the Unknown1God the Known and Godthe UnknownBY SAMUEL BUTLERGod the Known and God the Unknown2Prefatory NoteGOD the Known and God the Unknown first appeared in the formofa series of articles which were published in The Examiner inMay, June,and July, 1879.Samuel Butler subsequently revisedthe text of his work,presumably with the intention ofrepublishing it, though he never carriedthe intention intoeffect.In the present edition I have followed hisrevisedversion almost without deviation.I have, however, retained afewpassages which Butler proposed to omit, partly because theyappear to meto render the course of his argument clearer, andpartly because theycontain characteristic thoughts andexpressions of which none of hisadmirers would wish to bedeprived.In the list of Butlers works God theKnown and Godthe Unknown follows Life and Habit, which appearedin 1877,and Evolution, Old and New, which was published in May, 1879.It is scarcely necessary to point out that the three works areclosely akin insubject and treatment, and that God the Knownand God the Unknownwill gain in interest by being considered inrelation to its predecessors.R.A.STREATFEILDGod the Known and God the Unknown3CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTIONMANKIND has ever been ready to discuss matters in the inverseratioof their importance, so that the more closely a question isfelt to touch thehearts of all of us, the more incumbent it isconsidered upon prudent peopleto profess that it does not exist,to frown it down, to tell it to hold itstongue, to maintain thatit has long been finally settled, so that there is nownoquestion concerning it.So far, indeed, has this been carried through all time past thattheactions which are most important to us, such as our passagethrough theembryonic stages, the circulation of our blood, ourrespiration, etc.etc.,have long been formulated beyond allpower of reopening questionconcerning them - the mere fact ormanner of their being done at all beingranked among the greatdisco
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