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and the Omega of all things, the superior being, and the most real 

 reality.&quot; 



Again, Caro observes : 



&quot; Science conducts God with honour to its frontiers, thanking him 

 for his provisional services.&quot; L Idee de Dieu, p. 47. 



Feuerbach tells us plainly : 



&quot; Les antichretiens, les athees, les human istes (qui ne reconnaissent 

 d autre Dieu que 1 humanite) aujourd hui sont bien maltraites ; mais 

 ayons bon courage ; 1 atheisme humanitaire n est plus dans les cama 

 rillas des grands seigneurs riches et faineants, comrue au xviii e siecle, il 

 est descendu dans le cceur des travailleurs qui sont pauvres, des tra 

 vailleurs d esprit comme des travailleurs de bras; il aura sous peu le 

 gouvermment du globe.&quot; Qu est-ce que la Religion ? p. 586. 



Another writer of the same school remarks : 



&quot; Les feuilletonistes frangais qui pretendent attaquer les moines, ne 

 voient pas qu ils font cause commune avec eux, puisqu ils admettent, 

 comme eux, 1 article fondamental, la notion de conscience morale et la dis 

 tinction du bien et du mal. Le plus celebre d entre eux n est lui-meme 

 qu un poete jesuitique. Les seuls opposant veritable a 1 imposture 

 religieuse, c est nous et nos doctrines purement et radicalement nega 

 tives.&quot; GRATKY, Uhe Etude sur la Sophist ique contemporaine, p. 153. 



Returning to our English physical expositors before quoted, 

 we may now sum up the teaching in which they General re 

 appear to concur, or at least the teaching which is sult 

 the ultimate and logical outcome of their expositions the 

 dogmas which can hardly fail to impress themselves upon 

 the minds of their disciples who follow them with so simple 

 and unhesitating a trust. They may be drawn up as 

 follows : 



I. Temporal happiness is the one rational aim of life. 



II. A positive belief in God and a future life is an un 

 warrantable superstition. 



III. Virtue and pleasure are synonymous, for in root and 

 origin they are identical. 



IV. Men are essentially but brutes, no differences of kind 

 dividing them. 



