Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910 / 2008-07-29 00:00:00
EBOOK THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION ***
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The Religious Situation
BY
GOLDWIN SMITH
TORONTO
WM. TYRRELL & COMPANY
1908
COPYRIGHT, 1908
BY THE
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1908
BY
GOLDWIN SMITH
[Transcriber's note: This book was originally part of Smith's "No
Refuge but in Truth." It was split into a separate e-book because it
had its own title and verso page.]
THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION.
(From the _North American Review_.)
"I express myself," says Bishop Butler, "with caution, lest I should be
mistaken to vilify reason, which is, indeed, the only faculty which we
have to judge concerning anything, even revelation itself; or be
misunderstood to assert that a supposed revelation cannot be proved
false from internal characters." "The faculty of reason," he says, "is
the candle of the Lord within us against vilifying which we must be
very cautious."
What would the world be without religion? That is the dread question
which seems now to be everywhere presenting itself. Would even the
social fabric remain unshaken? Has not its stability partly depended
on the general belief that the dispensation, with all its inequalities,
was the ordinance of the Creator, and that for inequalities here there
would be compensation hereafter? The belief may not in common minds
have been very present; but it would seem to have had its influence.
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