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The Inconclusiveness And Aberrations Of Scientific Teachers.
action of social forces the genesis and development of man ' s moral nature . If they succeed in their search—ancl I think they are sure to succeed—social duty would be raised to a hig her level of significance , and the deepening sense of social duty would , it is to be hoped , lessen , if not obliterate , the strife and heartburning Avhich now upset and disguise our social life . " I need not stop here to point out the miscMevousness of such a philosophy ^ as this , which seems to land us in about as hopeless a morass of mere human " egotism " as ever was propounded by the facile pen of the most eloquent of antagomsts of all revealed religion !
What , for instance , can the folloAving sentence mean , but that the moral consciousness of man is superior to any external or internal influence of actual dogma or religious truth—in fact " independent morality " most alarming to every reader of a Bible : " Are you quite sure that those beliefs and dogmas are primary ancl not derivedthat they are not tbe products , instead of being the creators , of man's moral nature . " Carlylo ' s theory , as set forth bi the folloAving words , is surely contradicted by all the its duties and delusions
known facts of man ' s history , of the world ' s ways and works , even : " It is in one of tho ' Latter Day Pamphlets' that Carly le corrects a reasoner , who deduced the nobility of man from a belief in heaven , by telling Mm that he puts the cart before the horse , the real truth bemg that the belief in heaven is derived from tho nobility of man . " It must be quite clear to us all that Ave have before us in Englandas m Germany , a
, " Culter Kampf , " which can only be fought on tbe one safe old ground—reverential acceptance of the Bible , belief in the supernatural , trust in the reality of God's Providential Rule ; or else there is nothing before us apparently but the hollowness of a quasi science , the aberrations of a polished Infidelity .
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .
BY BRO . GEORGE MAEKHAM TAVEDDELL , " Author of " Shaltspere , his Times , and Contemporaries , " " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham , " " The People ! s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage " " The Visitor ' s Handbook to Redcar , Coatham , and Saltburn by the Sea , " "The History of the Stockton and Darlington Rail-way , " cj-c , § c .
BRO . A . J . Wheeler , of Memphis , Tennessee , in the United States , has a column in bis Masonic Jewel , for Marriages and Deaths of Masons , ancl the Births of then ' children . The Marriages are headed " Affiliated ; " the Births , " From Darkness to Light ;" and the Deaths , " Called off . " May all true Masons be happily " Affiliated ! " May their offspring be numerous and healthy , and emerge " from Darkness to Light , " both literally ancl figuratively , especially to that True Light of Freemasonry Avhich no mere scenic the
acting , no mere mumblbig of ceremonies , can ever shed upon the mental Darkness of ignorantly-depraved ! Ancl Avhen " called off " from Labour here on earth , may it be to the RefresMnent of a higher ancl holier existence , in that Grand Lodge above , where the World ' s Great Architect lives and reigns for ever . One might preach a sermon eA ery day in the year , ancl write a separate essay for every magazine both in the United States and Great Britain , from Bro . Wheeler ' s simple two Avords— " Called off . " A Avell-knoAvn Brother Mason , Avhose name I am not at liberty to mention at present , has invented and just brought out for sale , anew railway ancl dog cart key , which he has registered under the name of the " Pan-Anglican . " It is made of cast steel , p lated AVith
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The Inconclusiveness And Aberrations Of Scientific Teachers.
action of social forces the genesis and development of man ' s moral nature . If they succeed in their search—ancl I think they are sure to succeed—social duty would be raised to a hig her level of significance , and the deepening sense of social duty would , it is to be hoped , lessen , if not obliterate , the strife and heartburning Avhich now upset and disguise our social life . " I need not stop here to point out the miscMevousness of such a philosophy ^ as this , which seems to land us in about as hopeless a morass of mere human " egotism " as ever was propounded by the facile pen of the most eloquent of antagomsts of all revealed religion !
What , for instance , can the folloAving sentence mean , but that the moral consciousness of man is superior to any external or internal influence of actual dogma or religious truth—in fact " independent morality " most alarming to every reader of a Bible : " Are you quite sure that those beliefs and dogmas are primary ancl not derivedthat they are not tbe products , instead of being the creators , of man's moral nature . " Carlylo ' s theory , as set forth bi the folloAving words , is surely contradicted by all the its duties and delusions
known facts of man ' s history , of the world ' s ways and works , even : " It is in one of tho ' Latter Day Pamphlets' that Carly le corrects a reasoner , who deduced the nobility of man from a belief in heaven , by telling Mm that he puts the cart before the horse , the real truth bemg that the belief in heaven is derived from tho nobility of man . " It must be quite clear to us all that Ave have before us in Englandas m Germany , a
, " Culter Kampf , " which can only be fought on tbe one safe old ground—reverential acceptance of the Bible , belief in the supernatural , trust in the reality of God's Providential Rule ; or else there is nothing before us apparently but the hollowness of a quasi science , the aberrations of a polished Infidelity .
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .
BY BRO . GEORGE MAEKHAM TAVEDDELL , " Author of " Shaltspere , his Times , and Contemporaries , " " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham , " " The People ! s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage " " The Visitor ' s Handbook to Redcar , Coatham , and Saltburn by the Sea , " "The History of the Stockton and Darlington Rail-way , " cj-c , § c .
BRO . A . J . Wheeler , of Memphis , Tennessee , in the United States , has a column in bis Masonic Jewel , for Marriages and Deaths of Masons , ancl the Births of then ' children . The Marriages are headed " Affiliated ; " the Births , " From Darkness to Light ;" and the Deaths , " Called off . " May all true Masons be happily " Affiliated ! " May their offspring be numerous and healthy , and emerge " from Darkness to Light , " both literally ancl figuratively , especially to that True Light of Freemasonry Avhich no mere scenic the
acting , no mere mumblbig of ceremonies , can ever shed upon the mental Darkness of ignorantly-depraved ! Ancl Avhen " called off " from Labour here on earth , may it be to the RefresMnent of a higher ancl holier existence , in that Grand Lodge above , where the World ' s Great Architect lives and reigns for ever . One might preach a sermon eA ery day in the year , ancl write a separate essay for every magazine both in the United States and Great Britain , from Bro . Wheeler ' s simple two Avords— " Called off . " A Avell-knoAvn Brother Mason , Avhose name I am not at liberty to mention at present , has invented and just brought out for sale , anew railway ancl dog cart key , which he has registered under the name of the " Pan-Anglican . " It is made of cast steel , p lated AVith