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the Revelation itself, but for the sake of the untaught multitudes who 
injured by the processes of change which they are not competent to deal wi ^ 
The generality of persons are not educated up to the point wher y 
satisfactorily grapple with error ; and till they are educated, they wdlbe^e 
mercy of charlatans in religion, and criticism, and scieMe ' As 
then it is our business to promote education, and so promote religious pro 
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deed immutable, fo f f ations an d generations most 
Z^t^oX — ^ The very founding of Christianity 
w"d wninv of a new light on civilisation. There never was a period n 
Te wmld’s pro-ress in which there was so widely spread a sceptic^ in 
fotth ltd mSs as in the days of Augustus Ciesar. If nothuig had been 
divinely done to arrest the moral decay of the Empire, the rum must have 
been total for human nature. If by a stretch of imagmation we could con- 
ceive what the world would have become, say by the time of Cons “™ e ; 
Christianity had not been at work, might^have s ““y dea J j con . 
wo^Sy recall to them, that in the monastic system of the mid^e 
ages-in the practice of the Councils or representative 
in the nreservation of all past literature, Greek and Roman— in the lonnm 
rf afr edltional institutes of the world, Christianity hadled,m 
preserved, the civilization Did Zy L lead tie way 
clergy were natural enemies of progres . . , ■ nlace for 
law^and literature, but he would say more : he woidd otai.phcef.. 
Christianity in the promotion both of science and art a . S nfacture of 
science (he would call it) of our own nation-the cotton manufacture 
