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nection, by grove and temple worship, of social humanity 

 with this heaven power that the sun revealed the might and 

 beneficence of, but whose majesty was equally revealed by 

 the motions of the stars, and the fathomless immensity of 

 space, onward to a pure and idealized God-Spirit of Zara- 

 thushtra, of Moses, of Plato, and of Aristotle, the passage 

 was steady and upward. It ennobled man's intellect, it united 

 for him expansive but finite earth to infinite heaven. 



The advent of Christ proclaiming a fatherhood of the God- 

 Spirit, and a unity of mankind as children of that ever-living 

 and all-powerful Spirit, gave unbounded aspirations for human 

 love and human socialization. It gave also an outlook of 

 cogitic and spiritic expanse that was practically limitless. 

 iVnd so, round this man and his teachings in the future, the 

 human race can everywhere gather, in halls and temples dedi- 

 cated to earnest spiritic inquiry. There the elevation of the 

 spiritic and the cogitic hfe will be fostered, guided, and ad- 

 vanced, so as to subdue and "keep under" the sensuous and 

 the carnal, that after all are the necessary foundations on 

 which the higher cogitic or mental and men to-moral as well 

 as the spiritic or religious have been reared, till they have 

 "reached to the heaven." 



Every question will be discussed and viewed not in the 

 light of dogmatics, of sectarianism, of religious bitterness, 

 but as suffused with the light of Christian love, and with an 

 exact scientific value that will guide surely, if it be at times 

 falteringly, to higher goals. 



Thus will evolve simply, naturally, and ever more clearly 

 a real acceptable "scientific religion" such as Haeckel, Carus, 

 Drunmiond, Chamberlain, Romanes, and many others have 

 groped after, and at times seen, "as in a glass darkly." Thus 

 "faith" w^ill never be a final stereotyj^ed dogmatic belief such 

 as the Protestant, Catholic, Mohammedan, Jewish, and other 

 theologians have tried to force on their respective sects, but 

 will proceed "from strength to strength, from glory to glory." 

 For, like every human source of knowledge and well-being, 

 it will be a continuous evolution along an ascending line, if 



