Excerpt from The Positive Evolution of Religion: Its Moral and Social Reaction

The new Faith when it comes will be of little worth unless it has been shaped by generations of honest and fearless men, and has found in those who are to receive it an honest and fearless temper. Our plea is not for a life of perverse disputings or busy proselytising, but only that we should look at one another with a clear and steadfast eye, and march forward along the paths we choose with firm step and erect front. - John Morley on Compromise.

In now reducing to permanent form the teaching which for some years past I gave to our friends at New ton Hall, it must be understood that my survey of the long evolution of the religious spirit ineradicable in man kind was based upon the philosophical and religious system known as Positivism. The title of this volume implies as much. It is far from my purpose to attempt any general exposition of the system. I shall merely seek to form an estimate of various types of religion from a free and independent point of view.

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