, 1870-01-23
TIE MORAL wkAKnKss or mP1pE11rY.

~ .. a,r haro-. ~ a7h,,o wind tb,t
siam as|;ta ~ tba ,,orat wor,d-tbe inadaI
Two months apo an effort to hold 8 con.
,ent,n of All the inhde,s Of America At
phil.delnb;a resn1t~d in the asaemb,a1s of
half !. dozen sonrad ..cat;ca. who. after
,,,,,tr,.1 o,,,f...i,n, th.t' .sfr.a +ho,,btu
wa. for eune ipcpmprehanEbIh reason, q
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.ha4 ALL euPeeo$!s'o4 ees~see. "A
ike .asaemblace, though countenancsd by
Ehe popular ua1ne Of Gariba1di, met with q
similar collapss, While 1t was still pend
inc practical though extraordinary com
rnrntsry an ita aims cana o1er from Ger
m,nv in the ASSASSINATION. bv q cr.zed in
Adel of = nnsst Who vas chanting his
crrdo At tn. altar In Enpland but one or
two men v.nture to appear before the pub
liz m tha bs,;a NJ hostility to relioion.
thouoh No form of religion is 30 wide from
ever other th.t hnndreda and Thousands
cannot I've found to advocate it,
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- - ~. s haa,.a as.nrs s1,,o.t ni,hont .7cer,-
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~ 49, sh.r-st;on ~ tha ;ntsllact and fatal
sror ~ ths be,,+ Tho eminent Jnaos
sb.r,vood ~ pennez1vanis in rendar;no
aa,;s;o,, ,aa;,st tha v.1i3;tv of haonest
I'm The fonndation Of an .Infids1 society." "
Co.,
az r,n,, ,,ov, . no,,r,, n ,,c,. . ncaoo, d,
preparation to q1s5 3qnoe @ 20 en 1os ne sne ias
nof .lep..o q decent nanIe,s aaa good notals
comnen aD ~S nuiaancs Ia % ann issraee to 1ns cs,y.a
L does not necessarily derogate from the
suundness Of the repugnance Of either the
Judge ar the people for whom he speaks,
to ekeptical opinions, that be gives IN un-
proved and perhaps unsound reason for it.
Fo. wbero hostility to any form of opin-
ions becomes 80 deeply seated in the
human breast that it will invent
and unquestioninR,y believe grounds
that are untrue, this state OF hostility must
itself have q deeper and more conclusive
basis than that which it pretends. The
ini5del end skeptic class, who are th1s fres-
IL charged With sensualism, instead Of BE-
INC specially sensual, are given to mental
speculst,op. 70 Is oyes-thfnking, ;" and to phi
losoph5cal drea,ns and disputahons which
withdraw and p.e-occupy their minds. i
u,n Of hearty, vigorous body and strong
| ca,na1 sppetites may often DO religious
zealot. Ike Brigham Young or Martin
Luthar; but be has, IN common paflAnce,
| too much blood. too strong affections, too
vieo1ops heart to pass into that metaphYs-
ical traiu Of skepticiam, denial, and negasion
which eliminate in infdeiity. For, after
! all, the difference between the religious aud
! the speculative character is one between the
emotional and intellectual elements Of
character. Let Us not be understood as
inp,ying that the highest gradations Of iu-
tellect are necessarily skepdcas, more than
the lower are religious. But skeptieism is
tho result al the application to religious
| topics Of The intellect merely, and small
intellect Is. for this purpose, as effective a.
large one, provided it he unaided by the
emotional and moral instincts. There are
many phases of truth wholly apart from,
religion, which the intellect, unaided By
the Ynorsl and emotional nature, is incapa.
ble Of understanding. It may be laid down
as general proposition that the reasoning
powera alone will not determine the true
| from The false, frat, In any question oi
taste, IS, for instance, the merits OF 9