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THE substance of Prof. Dawes Hicks' book was delivered as the Hibbert Lectures in 1931. The volume is designed primarily for the general reader, especially for those "who have abandoned the resort of basing their religious trust on a miraculously attested revelation", and for whom, therefore, the philosophic approach to religion is indispensable. The author admits that "philosophy can as little provide us with a new religion as the science of ethics can provide us with a new morality" ; yet "a religious mind which has reflected upon the principles upon which its religion rests, is clearly an advance upon the religious mind which has not so reflected".
The Philosophical Bases of Theism
By Dr. G. Dawes Hicks. (Hibbert Lectures.) Pp. 272. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1937.) 8s. 6d. net.
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H., J. The Philosophical Bases of Theism. Nature 140, 485 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140485a0
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