You will probably make your own
ventures severally. If radically tough, the hurly-burly of the
sensible facts of nature will be enough for you, and you will need
no religion at all. If radically tender, you will take up with the
more monistic form of religion: the pluralistic form, with its
reliance on possibilities that are not necessities, will not seem to
afford you security enough.
But if you are neither tough nor tender in an extreme and radical
sense, but mixed as most of us are, it may seem to you that the type
of pluralistic and moralistic religion that I have offered is as
good a religious synthesis as you are likely to find. Between the
two extremes of crude naturalism on the one hand and transcendental
absolutism on the other, you may find that what I take the liberty
of calling the pragmatistic or melioristic type of theism is exactly
what you require.
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