fers, nor postulates, nor admits supernatural interferences; nor believes in the miracles of deluded persons, conjurers, or demons. But from the fact that religion and its workings are seen to him to be true to, and consonant with, nature, he infers that it must have its origin and end in Nature's Essence, or Nature's Life; and believes that it is the link that binds the human soul to its God, that of God and man it may make one.
Thus we find ourselves at last upon a rock: for while the conflicting dogmas of religion are based upon imaginary quantities, ghosts, hobgoblins, the products of priests and medicine-men; the fundamentals of all religions are the highest products of the human mind under the fostering care of God.
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While I bid to the former adieu, and advise others to hurl them back on the dark-minded fanatics who gave them birth; I would, on the other hand, apply to the essentials and fundamentals of all religions, the beautiful words of the gifted Pope:
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul;
That, changed through all, and yet in all the same;
Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame;
Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees;
Lives through all life, extends through all extent,
Spreads undivided, operates unspent."
LACTS OF THE APOSTLES:
author of, 67; character of, 68;
preparation of, 68.
fall of, 233-235; the federal head,
234; inherited guilt of, 265.
on the moon's acceleration, 190.
ABERNETHY:
on the sufferings of hell, 257.
ALEXANDRIANS, THE,:
on immortality, 194.
AESCHYLUS:
on immortality, 195.
ANNIHILATION:
impossible, 8; unthinkable, 177.
ANTIQUITY:
Confucius on, 132; and tradition,
56.
why he was praised, 72.
ARISTOTLE:
his advice on the use of doubt,
2; on cause and effect, 7; on be-
ing and force, 8; on intelligence,
9; a great light in all ages, 10; on
the rule of judgment, 54; on God,
8, 9, 87, 111, 124; on the conser-
vation of energy, 99; on annihi-
lation, 99; on creation, 99; on
immortality, 104, 179; on rewards,
and punishments, 113; on relig-
ious gatherings, 115; on liber-
ality, 116, 118; on purity of life,
119; on God's immutability, 124;
on the selfish man, 117; on
philanthrophy, 117; on forgive-
ness, 118; doubts immortality,
179; Darwin on, 179; on the origin
of things, 203; on monism, 209;
on religion, 214.
ARISTOPHANES:
on forming alliances, 4.
ATOMS:
no knowledge of, 205; Huxley on,
205; Spencer on, 205; probably
have one and the same essence,
206.
on the unknowability of God, 16.
APOSTLES, THE,:
could they write, 54.
AGNOSTICISM:
and fanaticism, 18; does not de-
stroy the religious conscious-
ness, 27; and science, 98; and
Darwin, 200.
APOCRYPHA, THE,:
the Roman church and the, 84.
AURELIUS, MARCUS,:
on the rule of life, 28: on Nature, 29.
AUTOLYCHUS:
on Honesty and Trust, 236.
ANTAGONISM:
Grove, Sir William R., on, 264.
ASOORS:
how they became desperate, 226;
they attack heaven, 226; vomit
blood, 227; fight with the Soors,
228.
ATONEMENT, BLOOD,:
Noah makes a blood-offering, 238;
God's alleged commands con-
cerning, 238; a perpetual institu-
tion, 239; Jephthah's offering,
239; Jehovah's alleged offering,
241; Elijah's sacrifice, 239; a doc-
trine common to all barbarous
people, 239-240; rational explan-
ation, of, 240, 246; a repulsive,
disgusting, and blasphemous
doctrine, 241-246; a man-of-
fers, nor postulates, nor admits supernatural interferences;
nor believes in the miracles of deluded persons, conjurers,
or demons. But from the fact that religion and its workings
are seen to him to be true to, and consonant with, nature, he
infers that it must have its origin and end in Nature's Es-
sence, or Nature's Life; and believes that it is the link that
binds the human soul to its God, that of God and man it
may make one.
Thus we find ourselves at last upon a rock: for while the
conflicting dogmas of religion are based upon imaginary
quantities, ghosts, hobgoblins, the products of priests and
medicine-men; the fundamentals of all religions are the
highest products of the human mind under the fostering
care of God.
While I bid to the former adieu, and advise others to hurl
them back on the dark-minded fanatics who gave them birth;
I would, on the other hand, apply to the essentials and fun-
damentals of all religions, the beautiful words of the gifted
Pope:
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul;
That, changed through all, and yet in all the same;
Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame;
Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees;
Lives through all life, extends through all extent,
Spreads undivided, operates unspent."
LACTS OF THE APOSTLES:
author of, 67; character of, 68;
preparation of, 68.
fall of, 233-235; the federal head,
234; inherited guilt of, 265.
on the moon's acceleration, 190.
ABERNETHY:
on the sufferings of hell, 257.
ALEXANDRIANS, THE,:
on immortality, 194.
AESCHYLUS:
on immortality, 195.
ANNIHILATION:
impossible, 8; unthinkable, 177.
ANTIQUITY:
Confucius on, 132; and tradition,
56.
why he was praised, 72.
ARISTOTLE:
his advice on the use of doubt,
2; on cause and effect, 7; on be-
ing and force, 8; on intelligence,
9; a great light in all ages, 10; on
the rule of judgment, 54; on God,
8, 9, 87, 111, 124; on the conser-
vation of energy, 99; on annihi-
lation, 99; on creation, 99; on
immortality, 104, 179; on rewards,
and punishments, 113; on relig-
ious gatherings, 115; on liber-
ality, 116, 118; on purity of life,
119; on God's immutability, 124;
on the selfish man, 117; on
philanthrophy, 117; on forgive.
ness, 118; doubts immortality,
179; Darwin on, 179; on the origin
of things, 203; on monism, 209;
on religion, 214.
ARISTOPHANES:
on forming alliances, 4.
ATOMS:
no knowledge of, 205; Huxley on,
205; Spencer on, 205; probably
have one and the same essence,
206.
on the unknowability of God, 16.
APOSTLES, THE,:
could they write, 54.
AGNOSTICISM:
and fanaticism, 18; does not de-
stroy the religious conscious-
ness, 27; and science, 98; and
Darwin, 200.
APOCRYPHA, THE,:
the Roman church and the, 84.
AURELIUS, MARCUS,:
on the rule of life, 28: on Nature, 29.
AUTOLYCHUS:
on Honesty and Trust, 236.
ANTAGONISM:
Grove, Sir William R., on, 264.
ASOORS:
how they became desperate, 226;
they attack heaven, 226; vomit
blood, 227; fight with the Soors,
228.
ATONEMENT, BLOOD,:
Noah makes a blood-offering, 238;
God's alleged commands con-
cerning, 238; a perpetual institu-
tion, 239; Jephthah's offering,
239; Jehovah's alleged offering,
241; Elijah's sacrifice, 239; a doc-
trine common to all barbarous
people, 239-240; rational explan-
ation, of, 240, 246; a repulsive,
disgusting, and blasphemous
doctrine, 241-246; a man-of-
ATONEMENT, BLOOD,:- Continued.
straw, 242; avails nothing. 245-
246; the doctrine of, immoral, 246;
adieu bidden to it, 246; the sacri-
fice of Jeoud, the only begotten
son, 247; doctrine of, rejected,
266; the true atonement, 266, 267.
AUGUSTINE:
on damnation of children, 258.
BRAUN:
on evolution, 13.
BATHYBIUS:
as a form of elemental life, 33.
BACON:
on knowledge, 83.
BRAHMA:
orders Seev to swallow the fatal
drug, 226.
the common, 139.
BENEVOLENCE:
the richest fruit of, 127; man's
habitation, 130; and riches, 131;
man's characteristic, 131; and
righteousness, 131.
criticised more and more, 3; not a
little in it unacceptable, 40;
Tyndall on, 50; Mueller on, 173;
not literally inspired, 95; science
emancipated from, 173.
less effective than the voice, 55.
BLOOD:
all things purged by, 239; atone-
ment, disgusting character of,
211.
BOASTING:
Confucius on, 129.
BOSTON:
on the sufferings of hell, 257.
BUDDHISM.
its rise and prevalence, 40.
BURROWS, JOHN,:
on miracles, etc., 91.
CANON:
the earliest, 75; the Muratonian,
78; gradually fixed, 79; virtually
settled, 81, 82, 83; not determined
by a general council, 83, 84; the
CARLYLE:
on man, 216.
CARTER:
on Moses, 265.
CALVIN, JOHN,:
on reprobation, 258; on damnation,.
259.
used to decapitate Raboo, 226.
CAUSE:
every, has its effect, 242; exempli
fied by the laws of heredity, 242,
243.
does not save, 28, 71; Laing on, 98;.
the common, 137.
the Scotch, in the 17th. cent., 257;,
how they have deceived, 2, 268.
CLEMENT:
superstition of, 56; on hell, 253.
CREATION, SPECIAL,:
no reason for belief in, 138; Spen-
cer on, 139; at variance with
known facts, 139; bishop of Car-
lyle on, 140.
on life, 191; on immortality, 199.
CIVILIZATION:
severe in its tests, 1.
CHRIST, JESUS,:
Belief in his divinity not accepted?
by scientists in general, 2, 236;.
belief in his divinity not neces-
sary to virtue, 29; what he came
for, 30, 95; his birth and early
life, 44, 47; his works, 44; his
teachings true, 89, 146; divinity
of, unproved, 89, 91, 93, 94; Fre-
mantle on, 95; belief in divinity
of, not necessary to salvation, 95,
236, 237; his summary of man's.
duty, 125.
the resurrection of, 154-160; Seidel,
Prof., on, 158; a living soul in a
dead world, 159; belief in his
resurrection and discipleship,
159, 160; his divinity, 236; exem-
plifies the will of God, 236; our
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