This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...culture; its dogmatism on the one hand, even in the furthest ultramontane extent, and its 'scientism' on the other, even when most atheistic, are tempered with mutual civility and compliment. Have we not heard rumours of a 'Metaphysical Society, '1 as heterogeneous and harmonious as any Happy Family ever collected into ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...culture; its dogmatism on the one hand, even in the furthest ultramontane extent, and its 'scientism' on the other, even when most atheistic, are tempered with mutual civility and compliment. Have we not heard rumours of a 'Metaphysical Society, '1 as heterogeneous and harmonious as any Happy Family ever collected into one cage? Certainly the professors seem to marry like other people, and to have wives and children that are very much like other people's, and on the whole one might suppose theories of the universe to have but little effect on actual life. But effects take time. Our prophets, at least the elder ones, have much of the old religious leaven in their blood. We are already beginning to see something of the second genera 1 Expired, after a lingering illness, December, 1880 (or, with more exactness, committed suicide quietly in Dr. Martineau's parlour). MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. 185 tion of Atheism, and some of us who read this may live long enough to see the full undiluted effects of that view of things. There is, as I say, no agitation or alarm perceptible; yet now and again some anxious person enquires whether, if Belief in God became obsolete in society, the feeling of Moral Eesponsibility would remain unimpaired? One can hardly conceive Civilised Society existing without ' Moral Eesponsibility'--or something equivalent, however named. Among other reassuring replies it is sometimes pointed out that men exhibit an average of good conduct and trustworthiness who hold very various opinions on what are usually considered vital questions of religion and morals. True; but hitherto there has always been a general basis underlying all these varieties. Most varieties of opinion at any given time are probably superficial.. Those who as individuals have any re...
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