Destiny Is The Prison And

Indeed, In View Of Its Function, Religion Stands In Greater Need Of A Rational Foundation Of Its Ultimate Principles Than Even The Dogmas Of Science.

The Spirit Of Philosophy Is One Of Free Inquiry. It Suspects All Authority. Its Function Is To Trace The Uncritical Assumptions Of Human Thought To Their Hiding Places, And In This Pursuit It May Finally End In Denial Or A Frank Admission Of The Incapacity Of Pure Reason To Reach The Ultimate Reality.

I Lead No Party; I Follow No Leader. I Have Given The Best Part Of My Life To Careful Study Of Islam, Its Law And Polity, Its Culture, Its History And Its Literature.

The Revealed And Mystic Literature Of Mankind Bears Ample Testimony To The Fact That Religious Experience Has Been Too Enduring And Dominant In The History Of Mankind To Be Rejected As Mere Illusion. There Seems To Be No Reason, Then, To Accept The Normal Level Of Human Experience As Fact And Reject Its Other Levels As Mystical And Emotional.

Though The Terror Of The Sea Gives To None Security, In The Secret Of The Shell. Self Preserving We May Dwell.