ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the place of Value in Religion. Almost all religions is a certain attitude of Reverence or Worship; and we have to ask how this is connected with valuation. In the account that he gives of religion in Wilhelm Meister's Travels, he makes a sharp distinction between Fear and Reverence. The have some degree of reverence for wisdom, creative activity, and harmonious perfection; but it needs a considerable development of these modes of valuation before we can have any real reverence for the complete realization of them. If it is right to believe that human life consists rather in the pursuit of values than in the attainment of them, we may at least confidently affirm that the pursuit shows no sign of slackening. The world has not become perfectly wise or perfectly good, nor has it been either made perfectly beautiful or shown conclusively to be so in its final significance.
