Excerpt from The Dawn of a New Religious Era: And Other Essays
This collection of essays, written from time to time on special occasions during may activity as editor of The Open Court and The Monist, reflects the changes that have been taking place in recent years all over the religious world. We are now witnessing a reformation which is not a moral rebirth as that of Luther's time, but an intellectual development toward a deeper comprehension of our religious aspirations. We are coming to understand the religious problem in its scientific significance. Biblical criticism, a comparative study of religion and the scientific method in philosophy have broadened our minds, yet we have not lost thereby in religious fervor or devotion to truth. The result is the new era into which the religious world is now entering.
When I took charge of The Open Court, in 1888, it was regarded as an ultra-radical and even shockingly blasphemous periodical, and I thought then that the time would slowly come when the very orthodoxy of our traditional religion would finally fall back on the interpretation which I then advocated. The time has come more quickly than I expected.
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