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er of the people, but their methods are very different. Christians are now beginning to employ material agencies for the elevation of life, which science, and not theology, has brought under their not
o claim to rearrange the economic relations of man in the State, or in society. He hoped he would be understood when he said plainly that it was his firm belief that any Christian State, carrying
d on the fact that only the rich could afford to be Christian
nd of man, and can be tested by human experience. No definition of Secularism shows
ennobled common life long ago. Sir Godfrey Kneller said, "He never looked on a bad picture but he carried away in his
help in heaven, and pray as though there were no help in ourselves. Since, however, praying saves no ship, arrests no disease, and does not pay the tax-gatherer, it is better to work at once and without the digression of sinking prayer-bu
ction is its conducive-ness to progress. The utilitarian test of generous rightness in motive may be open to objection,-there is no test which is not,-but the utilitarian rule is one comprehensible by every mind. It is the only rul
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ood of his parish by the good of the town, the good of the town by the good of the county, the good of the county by the good of
nds with goodness in them have the desert of future existence. Minds without veracity and generosity die. Th
I cannot help them by giving them money, one by one, but I can help them by making the condition of their life easier by a good government of the city in which they live. And even if the charge on my property for this purpose increases for a time, year by year, till the work is done, that charge I will gladly pay. It shall be my eth
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e of right with regard to others, it is a sense of duty towards others which tells us that we should do justice to them; and if not able to do it individually, to endeavor to get it
," Secularism, caring for truth and duty, cannot be far wrong. Thus, it has a reasonable regard for the contingencies of anothe
htfulness of independent thought, or they are guilty for propagating it. They all agree as to the right of publishing well-considered thought, otherwise thinking would be of little use. They all approve of free criticism, for there could be no reliance on thought which did not use, or could not bear that. All agree as to the equal action of opinion, without which opinion would be fruitless and action a monopoly. All agree that truth is the object of free thought, for many have died to gain it. All agree that scrutiny is the pathway to truth, for they have all passed along it. The
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