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    The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880
    The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880
    The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880
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      Title: The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880

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      Scientific and Religious Journal.

      Vol. I.             JANUARY, 1880.             No. 1.

      CONTENTS

      THE CONFLICT.

      The pyramids, temples and palaces of Thebes are monuments of the ancient intellects of our race. Great thinkers only were capable of giving to the world the Vedas, the Apollo Belvidere and the Parthenon. The arts and astronomy of Egypt harmonize very poorly with the idea that modern scientists have all the wisdom and intelligence known in the history of the ages. Among the wonderful characters of olden times we find Epictetus, Josephus, Strabo, Pliny, Seneca, Virgil, Aristotle, Plato, Tacitus, Thucydides and Herodotus.

      The Speculation of Evolution of Species was advocated among the Greeks six hundred years before the birth of Christ. Two thousand and three hundred years ago the entire system of German philosophy, along with modern pantheism, was advocated by the Buddhists and Brahmins.

      In many very important respects the ancients were in advance of us, especially in the arts, and we can not boast of superiority in either letters or philosophy. The gentlemen of modern materialistic schools do not compare favorably with Plato and Cicero in the elevation and reverence of their opinions. Science has certainly made some advancement, but where is the warrant for the boasting of sciolists of modern times?

      Buddhists taught the most perfect outline of materialism in general. They believed in a supreme force, but denied the existence of a Supreme Being. They rejected inquiry into first causes as unscientific, maintaining that facts alone were to be dealt with in all our investigations.

      The Brahmin contemplated the moment when his spirit would flow back into the great Pantheistic Being.

      Modern materialists say, We deal only with facts. We never speculate. The Buddhists, and the unbelievers who figure so boastingly upon the rostrum in modern times, speak alike. They say: "As many facts and second causes as you please, but ask no questions about first causes; that is unscientific." We should ask no questions (?) about the invisible. They have been very true (?) to their own principles.

      There is nothing speculative (?) in the hypothesis that General George Washington was evolved from a crustacean. There never was a more absurd and wild speculation. It is an old speculation. Anaximander, who lived six centuries before Christ, advocated the assumption. His words are the following: The sun's heat, acting on the original miry earth, produced filmy bladders or bubbles, and these, becoming surrounded with a prickly rind, at length burst open, and as from an egg, animals came forth. At first they were ill-formed and imperfect, but subsequently they elaborated and developed. This has the genuine ring of the language of modern unbelievers.

      Christianity, in its beginning, had to encounter this speculation along with the current literature and philosophy of a civilization which was semi-barbarous and centuries old, but it triumphed over all, and in the third century it triumphed everywhere. Since that time one effort has been made upon the part of paganism to regain her former strength in the old world. Julian made that effort. He tried to revive and establish the supremacy of pagan thought by the power of the state. Subsequent to this it disappeared in the east, and has only plead for toleration in the west. But the dark ages came on in all their hideousness, and unbelief developed itself about the close of the fifteenth century, all over Europe. Paganism, as the result, was fostered near the bosom of the church. The fifth Lateran Council proclaimed anew the tenet of the imperishability of the spirit of man. The Padua University adopted a system of materialism taught in the works of Alexander, of Aphrodisias. A form of pantheism known in the philosophy of Averroes soon became a center of skepticism.

      In the latter part of the seventeenth century modern unbelievers began their assaults. Lord Herbert and Hobbs in England, Spinoza in Holland, and Bayle in France.

      In seventeen hundred and thirteen Anthony Collins published a discourse for the encouragement of a clique called Free-thinkers. This discourse was thoroughly answered by Bently. In seventeen hundred

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