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    The Religious Situation
    The Religious Situation
    The Religious Situation
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    The Religious Situation

    By Goldwin Smith

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Religious Situation - Goldwin Smith

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Religious Situation, by Goldwin Smith

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Religious Situation

      Author: Goldwin Smith

      Release Date: October 17, 2006 [EBook #19568]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      The Religious Situation

      BY

      GOLDWIN SMITH

      TORONTO

      WM. TYRRELL & COMPANY

      1908

      COPYRIGHT, 1908

      BY THE

      NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY

      COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1908

      BY

      GOLDWIN SMITH

      [Transcriber's note: This book was originally part of Smith's No Refuge but in Truth. It was split into a separate e-book because it had its own title and verso page.]

      THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION.

      (From the North American Review.)

      I express myself, says Bishop Butler, with caution, lest I should be mistaken to vilify reason, which is, indeed, the only faculty which we have to judge concerning anything, even revelation itself; or be misunderstood to assert that a supposed revelation cannot be proved false from internal characters. The faculty of reason, he says, is the candle of the Lord within us against vilifying which we must be very cautious.

      What would the world be without religion? That is the dread question which seems now to be everywhere presenting itself. Would even the social fabric remain unshaken? Has not its stability partly depended on the general belief that the dispensation, with all its inequalities, was the ordinance of the Creator, and that for inequalities here there would be compensation hereafter? The belief may not in common minds have been very present; but it would seem to have had its influence. Apparently, it is now departing. In some places it seems to have fled. Scepticism, with social unrest, comes in its room.

      What is now the position of the clergy? Keepers

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