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the human race shall be one international family. 1 

 Man has only to decide how much suffering 

 he elects to go through in order to retard this 

 issue. 



Now Religion is and has always been ultra rational 

 there has never been such a thing as a rational 

 religion. This fact has been the cause of the power 

 of the priests of all ages and denominations, for they 

 live upon the ultra rational, that is ignorance. 



But gathering the facts, as we are now doing, we are 

 preparing the way, if not even formulating, the thing 

 men are looking for a rational religion or a religion 

 founded solely upon facts. 2 



altar ; it orders civilised men to believe in the legends of a savage 

 race. It places a hideous image, covered with dirt and blood, in the 

 Holy of Holies ; it rends the sacred Veil of Truth in twain. It 

 teaches that the Creator of the Universe, that sublime, that inscrutable 

 power, exhibited his back to Moses, and ordered Hosea to commit 

 adultery, and Ezekiel to eat dung. There is no need to say any- 

 thing more. Such a religion is blasphemous and foul." (Idem, 

 p. 526.) 



1 " Civilised society is becoming one vast highly organised and inter* 

 dependent whole the wants and requirements of every part regulated 

 by economic laws bewildering in their intricacy with a nervous 

 system of five million miles of telegraph wire, and an arterial system 

 of railways and ocean steamships, along which the currents of trade 

 and population flow* with a rapidity and regularity previously 

 unimagined. The old bonds of society have been loosened ; old 

 forces are becoming extinct ; whole classes have been swept away, 

 and new classes have arisen. The great army of industrial workers 

 throughout the world is almost entirely a growth of the past hundred 

 years." (" Social Evolution," Benjamin Kidd, 1895, p. 8.) 



" The period through which we are passing is perceived to be one 

 of transition. A definite, long-drawn-out, and altogether remarkable 

 era in the history of our civilisation is coming to a close amongst the 

 more advanced peoples." (Idem, p. 243.) 



2 "The Monistic religion of Nature, which, accordingly, we must 



