The religion of God not of men
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- The religion of God not of men
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- 1863
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The religion of God not of men
Author: Alexandre Thiennette Bérigny M.D.
Year: 1863
The Author intends to bring forth before the British Nation a series of Lectures upon various subjects, and thereby present in their own language, of which he was ignorant when twenty-five years of age, how he has come to the conclusion that, civilization being upon wrong foundations, no reform will be fraught with permanent benefit, unless the primary cause of social evils be eradicated, i. e., Superstition. He is not of the class of philosophers who acknowledge that the people must have something false to believe when they cannot have the truth: he holds scepticism as the most fertile ground for the cultivation of knowledge, truth, and wisdom, and he believes that evidence has no authority where there is no honest doubt. Popular faith that indolently contemplates itself as Narcissus at the fountain, is the atrophy of men's higher faculties, the baneful virus inoculated into the blood of human childhood; it has been the Harbinger of a gospel of fatality, despair, and offensive exclusiveness, for the defence of which, men have wasted their valuable energies, and carried on destructive wars. Know ledge on the contrary, being the impressions received by substantial, real, and intelle