Holy-Days and Holidays 



the Northern peoples are deliberately destroying 

 the conditions which have made them dominant, 

 it may be that the future of the Western world 

 lies in the hands of the virile and reproductive 

 lower orders of the Latin races. 



Here it would indeed seem that religion is still 

 religion, an end in itself, the greatest end. With 

 us it appears to be materializing and rationaliz- 

 ing itself into mere philanthropy ; the Churches 

 to be in haste to become huge Charity Organiza- 

 tion Societies, and to compete for public favour 

 and support on that ground. This is quite in 

 accordance with what we consider our practical 

 good sense. If a Bishop spends the whole of 

 his considerable income, and something over, 

 in going about in motor-cars and doing good, 

 we are disposed to judge the measure of his 

 success by the actual tangible and weighable 

 amount of "pfood" that he can be shown to 

 have done. And in private life you may meet 

 people who, believing themselves to be religious 

 enthusiasts, will recommend their particular 

 form of faith to you on the ground that it 

 makes them cleaner, or fatter, or richer, or 

 healthier, or something quite non-religious. 

 So strong is the desire to establish " religion " 



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