The Sources of Religious Insight

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THE BROSS LIBRARY

The Problem of the Old Testament, by James Orr, D.D. (Bross Prize, 1905) net $1.50

The Bible: Its Origin and Nature, by Marcus Dods, D.D. . . net $1.00

The Bible of Nature, by J. Arthur Thomson, M.A net $1.00

The Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine, by Frederick Jones Bliss, Ph.D net $1.50

The Sources of Religious Insight, by Josiah Royce, Ph.D., LL.D. net $1.25

THE BROSS LIBRARY

VOLUME VI

THE BROSS LECTURES . . 1911

THE SOURCES OF RELIGIOUS INSIGHT

LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE LAKE FOREST COLLEGE ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE LATE WILLIAM BROSS

BY

JOSIAH ROYCE, Ph.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK .... 1912

Copyright, 1912, by THE TRUSTEES OF LAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

Published April. 1912

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THE BROSS FOUNDATION

The Bross Lectures are an outgrowth of a fund established in 1879 by the late William Bross, Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois from 1866 to 1870. Desiring some memorial of his son, Nathaniel Bross, who died in 1856, Mr. Bross entered into an agreement with the "Trustees of Lake Forest University," whereby there was finally transferred to them the sum of forty thousand dollars, the income of which was to accumulate in perpetuity for successive periods of ten years, the accumulations of one decade to be spent in the following decade, for the purpose of stimulating the best books or treatises "on the connection, relation, and mutual bearing of any practical science, the history of our race, or the facts in any department of knowledge, with and upon the Christian Religion." The object of the donor was to _"call out the best efforts of the highest talent and the ripest scholarship of the world to illustrate from science, or from any department of knowledge, and to demonstrate the divine origin and the authority of the Christian Scriptures; and, further, to show how both science and revelation coincide and prove the existence, {vi} the providence, or any or all of the attributes of the only living and true God, 'infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.'"_