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human interest. Ii is ii fascinating
study to take up-thc history OF re-
ligious rites and Sacrifices and rituals
and the priesthood and the various re-
ligious beliefs. The evolution OF all
this is full of wonderful suggestion
and inspiration, Ii was not priest.
hood; it was not inposture- We 10
not now believe that ii was superrat-
ural. But how human il all was; now
necessary! And how similar was the
evolution of the one religion to the
other, We are all much more aiike
than unlike. We began similarly: we
followed the same laws of Develop
ment: only some arrive faster than
others at the goal we all seek.
This study will teach us what men
lave believed and why we believe
what we believe. This study will teach
men not to be too confident of their
own religious claim being unique anu
supernaturally chosen, for every great
religion has in its turn claimed to be
unique and supernaturally chosen-the
TtllSlou VI MUSES. anu VI .h'hi
of Jesus and of Buddha. Read as a
modest commencement of this inquiry
James Freeman Clarkc's little book
on "The Ten Great Religious of the
World.''
Perhaps the most fascinating chap
ter of all in the record of the worlds
toilsome march upward is that which
deals with the history of morals. How
did our, sense of right and wrong orig
mate; not only the inner sense. but
they arbitrary; are they divinely re-
vcaled, let down from the skies? Or
are they made known to us in the age
long processes of human experience:
Will not that study make clear to us
what right really is in its essential
nature: not Divine within or will sim
ply, but that which helps someone else
and yourself. too and wrong-that ny
which you hurt someone else, and also
| hurt yourself You will ascertain how
the law of right is the Inherent law
of all things, woven into the very
structure of the universe, into the very
| fabric of our beinG.
You will find out how men, want
| ing very much TO do right, have nctn-
ally done wrong. because their moral
sense stimulated hut did not guide
them. II WIS not enlightened. There
fore. the crime of the Spanish lnqui-
sition, pcrpetrated in the name OF re-
| ligion. in the name of right, perhaps
perpetrated in sincerity; and yet with
what violence to every sense Of right
and justice and humanity.
You will find charming and elo-
auent statement of all this i'll Lecky's
History of European Morals
OF course, have chosen certain
4 points of paramount interest. cosmic,
terrestrial. sociological, religious, eth
ical: partly because they are of most
vital importance: ard partly because
] have naturally emphasized the things
that are most closely related to the
lofty ideals of which we are thinking
in this place and at this time.
1 have reserved for final considera-
ton the books that influence.
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or. nave spohei VI '"e
nf knowledge. l will now consider
the literature of power.
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