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Excerpt from Lines of Religious Inquiry: An Address Delivered to the Unitarian Club of Toronto
Reverence, again, is needful probably in seeking truth. Certainly in imparting it, especially to un willing minds. I once heard Inger-soil. His bril liancy was unquestionable, and his fearlessness in attacking superstition commanded respect. But his travesty of Christianity was unfair and repul sive even to the sober free thinker. Much more to all who still clung to their ancestral faith. In an anti-clerical book store in Paris I found a comic Life of Christ, the effect of which would be to drive the reader who had not parted with reverence back into the arms of any decent superstition. In the day of Voltaire, when intolerance was still mighty and murderous, satire and mockery might be the only safe and eective missionaries of free thought. Now all is changed. Thought and utterance are free, or have nothing worse to encounter than prejudice and hard words. In my youth geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.
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