Religion and Progress: An Essay (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 2017 M09 15 - 86 páginas Excerpt from Religion and Progress: An Essay In the intellectual as in the physical world, sudden upheavals may be unavoidable but they are certainly 'not desirable. Besides, the circum stances which have called into existence the present powerful scepticism, are necessarily the very conditions which. Demand the most diligent exercise of our discriminative faculties. The intellectual activity which reveals to us so much that was false and shallow in our previous be liefs, is per 86 the most imperative reason why we should endeavor to preserve the fundamen tal facts of religion, independently of the errors of theological speculation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |