In his inexhaustibly suggestive masterpiece, A Preface to Morals (1929), Walter Lippmann writes:
There is a God in Mr. Whitehead’s philosophy, and a very necessary God at that. Unhappily, I am not enough of a logician to say that I understand what it means to say that ‘God is not concrete, but He is the ground for concrete actuality.’ … A conception of God, which is incomprehensible to all who are not highly trained logicians, is a possible God for logicians alone.
No more indeed than this, can I presume to have advanced, by the arguments in the series of essays towards a Theologia Mathematica.
For the mystic experience, or the calm and certainty that lies at the heart of real faith, I can hardly argue. You see, or you do not see, the deep red rose. You feel, or you do not feel, the breath of a breeze on your cheek.
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