Excerpt from Review of a Controversy Between the Rev. Brewin Grant and G. J: Holyoake, in the Cowper Street School Room, City Road
Many earnest and profoundly speculative thinkers object to Christianity on the ground that a knowledge of supernaturals is unattainable by man. Their theory ignores positive religion as neither more nor less than positive delusion; it denies the possibility of supernatural belief or (to vary with some advantage the mode of expression) the possibility of belief in the supernatural; it pronounces absurd any and every attempt to teach what no mortal can know; and, assuming that religion is religion because not science, accepts science as something based upon facts cognizable by human intellect while rejecting religion as something incapable of proof and, at best, ignorance reduced to system. This theory makes open war upon religion whenever religion is palmed off as science by an ignorant or a venal priesthood. Its advocates believe that religion may be true in a non-natural sense. In any other sense they believe it false. To their eyes written or spoken religion is written or spoken blasphemy. Religion, say they, is quite other than matter of fact in source and essence. Worldliness and other-worldliness are by these 'incorrigible' people placed in the same category. Nothing our parsons preach - nothing our parsons - do for one moment disturbs their conviction that as regards supernaturals all our wisest of wise men know amounts to very positive knowledge that they know nothing. Pertinaciously they foot it year after year on the 'broad path' heeding not the voice of our sacerdotal charmers charm they never so wisely concerning unknown Being and unknown states of Being. Their text is - Organised supernaturalism and organised error are one and indivisible. To that text they stick with wonderful tenacity.
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