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Presidential Address
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Time. Again, the view that Time is the soul of SpaceTime with Space for its body may be traced in the conception of 'Digambara '-Kāla, the Mahadeva, who has Space for his garment. But the parallel cannot be pressed further: for, in the Indian imagery, the Digambara is also Chidambara. Further, it should be noted that Sainkara's upāsya Brahman is as real as ourselves: not a quality posited by the religious sentiment, as Alexander would have it, but a reality as good as ours, which commands our reverence as rightfully as our self excites our love naturally. Alexander defines God as the object of religious emotion, He is correlative to the emotion or sentiment, as food is correlative to appetite. 'What we worship, that is God" says Alexander. Such a view of God does away with all bigoted notions about true God and false gods, and substitutes the distinction of higher God and lower God based on the comparative values of the kinds of religious thought. "ये यथा मां प्रपद्यन्ते areaêa HTFUEH” (. sit.) is a noble doctrine which makes for religious toleration. But the weakness of Alexander's religious philosophy lies in this, that food is a reality which exists independently of appetite, whereas God, according to Alexander, is only a correr lative of religious sentiment. Alexander perceives the difficulty, but his attempted solution does not seem to meet the requirements of the case. God, he thinks, . is only a name for "the world big with deity": Y" FETOUTH' -a quality next, after mind towards which the Universe is tending, so that the religious sentiment is not directed towards what is, but towards what will be. Alexander does not see any incongruity
