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Disestablishment of the Church of England by the Labor Government is a subject of conversation. It would deprive the Anglican Church of its privileged position. Its Bishops would no longer sit in the House of Lords, nor would the Archbishop of Canterbury rank before all the peers of the realm after the royal princes...
...stands between God (the Universal Father) and humanity, as the only go-between. His teachings make up a code of injunctions. These are divinely revealed and as such are sacred. It is sacrilegious to doubt these teachings and their exponent. There is no philosophic scrutiny permitted in the realm of religion, unless one is prepared to be called a "Radical". It is pure faith to the last degree of simplicity. It grants a monopoly of leadership to one, known as a prophet. Hindudharma on the other hand is very democratic: It conceives that the source of religious inspiration and promise...
...theory of organic evolution and its place in the scheme of life. Evolution is not dead, he said, nor can it be killed by legislative enactment. Any one who refuses to believe in it today is ignorant or bigoted. In its main outlines it has passed out of the realm of theory into that of fact. Evidence for it is far stronger than in Darwin's day, and we know more about heredity today than Darwin ever dreamed...
...Mohammed in order to convince him by a material display of power. Never having been acquainted with even the possibility of such a higher life as the spiritual before, the slave and citizen of Rome, and elsewhere, demanded proof in a sphere with which he was familiar--the realm of the physical...
...these columns that Science keep off the property of Religion by preventing the attack of reason on faith, he should also have demanded, to be just, that Religion keep off the property of Science, by refraining from the distortion by faith of the latter's principles in its realm of facts. Let our faith and our reason be kept apart, as Kant recommended some two hundred years ago, for neither is to be trusted when it wanders from home. It matters not what belief tells us about how, or when, or where this, or that, or the other thing happened...