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Title: The Religious Situation
Author: Goldwin Smith
Release Date: October 17, 2006 [EBook #19568]
Language: English
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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. Apparently, it is now departing. In some places it seems to have fled. Scepticism, with social unrest, comes in its room.
What is now the position of the clergy? Keepers