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Excerpt from Scientific Religion: Or Higher Possibilities of Life and Practice, Through the Operation of Natural ForcesIn strong contrast with these is the class who live under the full blaze of the light to which I have alluded, but who are morally unaffected by it. It is a useful light, they say, for looking into the past, - it has even some interest materially with regard to the present, - but it is useless so far as the future is concerned. It has been valuable as showing us the extent of our ignorance, and in revealing to us the many delusions in which we have been living, but it conveys no other truth to us, on the contrary, it presents to us insoluble problems with more distinctness than before, and it has no power of penetrating these for others, further than it penetrates them for us. The limit of our range of vision under its in¿uence must necessarily be the limit of theirs, and inasmuch as all that it shows us is that we don't know more than it shows us, (which is very little, because it does not penetrate below the surface of things, or beyond what we call the therefore, what is im penetrable surface for us must be impenetrable surface for everybody else, and what we call the material must be mate rial for everybody else, and we refuse to admit that any body can see further or have more light than we have. The analogy does not seem to occur to such persons, that some people are naturally more short-sighted than others, and are obliged to wear spectacles, did they not refuse to admit that spectacles exist for facilitating such internal vision as I am about to describe, they might possibly be furnished with them. In the meantime, there is far more hope for this class than for the one with which I have contrasted it, for though the light that is in them is darkness, they have the hon esty to say ao, - moreover, the light is in them unconsciously to themselves, and may burst out at any moment, but the others, more especially in the countries where the Greek or Roman Catholic religions prevail, have created their own darkness out of the bigotries, the superstitions, ignorance, and cruelty of ages, and they wrap it round them and call it light.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.