তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিক " serving Him. And hence it is often accompanied chief object being the development of the physiby a life of immoral thoughts and practices and oal resources of the cotiatry and the promotion vicious indulgences. It is therefore necessary of its material prosperity, he could not but recomthat theology and ethics should go hand in hand, mend the special cultivation of the physical Perhaps you will ask—what is there in Brah- sciences.But we must remember what Sir William raic Theology worth learning? I believe there is Hamilton says on the evil influence of an exclu Freat deal to be learnt if only we apply our-sive devotion to physical pursuits. It makes the selves to it with hearts free from prejudice and student a materialist ; for by holding too much conceit. You are not to expect here any thing communion with material objects and outward like hollow preaching, which only addresses the nature he sees nothing but a series of secondfeelings but affords no solid argument for reflec-jury eauses and the workings of blind neces: tion. Such preaching has certainly its uses else sity and mechanical laws, and is thus disabled dfrom coceiving the ture nature of God. This truth is well exemplified in , the case of the זין ש ל ,rשיא י & 8 o, f), க்ே . where. But in this institution which is intende to be a School, our object is not to preach but to teach. On referring to the vast mass of our ser numerous professors. and students of the physimons and popular tracts, you may have rum awayeاف sciences of our day who thuogh they constantly with the idea that there is nothing in Brahma handle the most striking testiDharma which requires thought or study; it is monies of God’s wisdom and mercy, seem to all superficial and commonplace. However simple.” thoroughly materialistic in their views. But if Brahmic truths may appear to be—and they" physical sciences be subordinated and ren cannot be otherwise as they are the spontaneous.** subservient to psychology, they prove and convictions of our natural consciousness—there ate in a remarkable manter the primary a world of philosophy at the bottom, which must truths revealed by the latter. We intend therebe explored in order to reach their scientifie prin-fore in our discourses ou Brahraic Theology to ciples. And as your object bere is to obtain as attach the utmost importance to psychology, it scientific knowledge of Brahmic theology, it willibeing at once the foundation and evidence of true theology; and if we have ever occasion to refer to the physical sciences, we shall use them for purposes of illustration. You are not to infer from what I have said that unlese you become $ bo necessary to explain all its doctrines in connection with philosophy. We intend to begin with psychology and make at always the basis of our speculations and arguments. With its light we propose to clear up all doubtful points; and philosophers you cannot be Brahmas. Far from to it we shall appeal in solving all difficulties.it. The sweet simplicities of Brahma Dharma We shall proceed step by step, drawing legitimatejaro soul-satisfying, and are capable of uleeting all the requirements of faith. But those who desire to understand the foundations of , their inferences from admitted premises, and from these inferences again developing the conclusion which they warrant, till we succeed in evolving the whole of Brahraic theology. Theology is evidently dependent upon psychology. The arguments and doctrines of religion are derived chiefly from the s:onstitution and laws of the human mind. The faith and the reasons of their belief should study psychology. They will come to find that in the highest activity of our intellectual nature reason and faith are one; that what we believe by faith is perfectly consonant with the highest philoso more we look into our own consciousness, the more we feel what human nature really is, and phy. н In the department of Ethics, we propose to recognise those facts of intelligence, personality take up only those subjects which relate to pracaud moral government which consititue the foun-tical morality. Speculative Ethics, comprising an dation of our knowledge of God. It is mind andanalysis of the nature and functions of connot matter that furnishes the chief materials of science, the doctrines of personality and accounta" !heological knowledge. Hence the study of psy. bility, and the true, theory of moral distinctions choingy is essential to theology. will be treated in the course of our Lectures on The learned Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta. Theology. In expounding the principles of PracUniversity highly extolled the Phisical Sciences.'tical Ethics we shall first describe the true destiny Nothing else could be expected from the stand- jof * human life. We shall enumerate and explain point from which he viewed the subject. His the various duties of man—to himself, to society
