Excerpt from Philadelphia or the Claims of Humanity, a Plea for Social Religious Reform
The following pages are addressed to those who believe in the supremacy of religious and moral principle, as the rule of human conduct, and the guide to human happiness. The author trusts, that to such as are swayed by this conviction, his work will not appear wholly undeserving of attention. It is written under a persuasion, that notwithstanding the many happy advances and triumphs of modern civilization, there still remains a great gulf, not only between what the world actually is and what it ought to be, but even between just conceptions on this latter point, and those which actually prevail. In fact we may truly say, that not merely the thoughtless and the worldly, but even the serious and the good, entertain, for the most part, very inadequate ideas of the condition to which philanthropy and Christian principle are bound to elevate human society. Miserably low as our present position is, compared with the ideal which these afford, we are apt almost to acquiesce in it, as if, after all, it were about the best which the world is destined to realize. But ought we to rest satisfied with a state of things, in which there is so much that is plainly contrary to justice, and revolting to humane and generous sentiment?
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