Excerpt from The New Religion: A Gospel of Love
The attentive reader will easily discern one purpose running through this book - it need not be here indicated.
That human nature is imperfect - at least less perfect than it is capable of becoming under favoring conditions, is conceded by the philosopher, and assumed in all Law and all Religion.
Whether such imperfection be but the proof of incomplete development, as the evolutionist would teach, or the result of some lapse from original perfection, as others hold, it is evident that the reformer of whatever name, should do his utmost to ascertain both the nature and extent of the infirmity he seeks to cure, before commencing his medication. There should be diagnosis.
All Religions seek to bring men to ideal perfection - seek to qualify them for dwelling with the eternal. Religion, therefore, is the reformer of highest pretensions. There are Religions, old and new, but their success as reformers has not been reassuring.
Religion is so sacred that men hesitate to question its competency and pretensions.
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