THE OPEN COURT. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



p. O. DRAWER F. 169—175 La Salle Street. 



EDWARD C. HEGELER, Pres.— Dr. PAUL CARUS, Editor. 



The reader will find in The Open Court an earnest and, as we believe, a 

 successful effort to conciliate Religion with Science, The work is done with 

 due reverence for the past and with full confidence in a higher future, 



The Open Court unites the deliberation and prudence of conservatism 

 with the radicalism of undaunted progress, While the merits of the old creeds 

 are fully appreciated, their errors are not overlooked. The ultimate conse- 

 quences of the most radical thought are accepted, but care is taken to avoid 

 the faults of a one-sided view. 



THE QUINTESSENCE OF RELIGION 



is shown to be a truth. It is a scientific truth (a reality) which has been and 

 will remain the basis of ethics, The Quintessence of Religion contains all that 

 is good and true, elevating and comforting, in the old religions. Superstitious 

 notions are recognized as mere accidental features, of which Religion can be 

 purified without harm to the properly religious spirit. 

 This idea is, 



FEARLESSLY AND WITHOUT RESERVATION OF ANY KIND, 



presented in its various scientific aspects and in its deep significance to in- 

 tellectual and emotional life. If fully grasped, it will be found to satisfy the 

 yearnings of the heart as well as the requirements of the intellect. 



Facts which seem to bear unfavorably on this solution of the religious 

 problem are not shunned, but openly faced. Criticisms have been welcome, 

 and will always receive due attention. The severest criticism, we trust, will 

 serve only to elucidate the truth of the main idea propounded in The Opes 

 Court. 



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