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She work straig h t—so much this ci neept i< n. The Chinese, H indoos j jective thought results only from the epitom e of, and which he m ay re p ­
equals so much that — ever, th a t is and Jews were thus rallied around, m ethods of Science. Awe, wonder, resent by stan d in g erect and ex­
all! W hen Science defines: G od is Confucius, B uddha and Jah v eh . curiosity and the desire of know l­ tending his arms. In so doing the
the W orld (U niverse or Cosmos), T h e C hristians around Theos ((rod) edge and power, take the place of body will represent the continuity
ntinite, eternal and unchangeable and ‘‘The C hrist;” the M ahom- the old religious em otions and their of the hum an race through the
in its being, action and laws, but rnedans around Allah and M a­ prayers and penances to gods and Ages, with its accum ulations of
ever changing in its phenom ena hom et; the Roman C atholics around devils. The nightm ares of the old wealth and knowledge and capacity
and relations to us.
Deus, C hrist and M ary; the P ro­ faiths vanish, and the light and of increased welfare and joy. The
T he C hrist is M an , H u m an ity , testants around God, Jesus and the possibility of unlim ited growth and extended arm s and hands repre­
the hum an race, in its converging, Bible. The Liberals, who are free hope greet our progress out into sent each living and acting g en era­
co-operating progress tow ards ever (Liber) from all the old gods, the clear. We could not be free tion by which those victories are
higher and better conditions of life creeds and churches, cannot help unless we lived in the infinite. achieved by the constant efforts aud
hut rally around and base their The w ithdraw al of hum an qualities sacrifices of the living Individuals.
on E a rth — the E arth ly Paradise.
The Holy Ghost, or S pirit, is the lives, activities and hopes upon the and purposes of governm ent and Iu thus standing, we symbolize and
actual life and love, individual and four undeniable and, to them , de­ control from the Infinite All leaves epitom ize H um au ity , the living
collective, of m ankind; best repre­ term ining realities we have nam ed: us free to observe it (a s in Astro­ Cross of love and labor, joy aud
sented and exhibited in the woman (1) The objectiva world of m atter nomy and Physics) and to use it, sacrifice, ever receiving aud tra n s ­
and wom anhood—‘‘M aiden,M other, and motion disclosed by Science; as we do in C hem istry a n d Bio­ lating the past into a higher future.
Queen and Goddess,” symbolized (2) the H um an Race, socially con­ logy, for hum an purposes. T h at ob­ 1 lie cross is no longer the symbol
as the “ M ater G loriosa” in F aust. verging into a H u m an ity disclosed servation, knowledge and use be­ of torture and death, but of the
To these let us add the C hrist - j by H istory; (3) the indispensible came our hum an life and interests. effort and victory of the New Life.
child (with Festival on C hristm as) fact and functions of wom anhood A nd with them is joined the cosmic
The H um an Body represents the
and thus com plete the H u m an T rin ­ in continuing the life and love of em otions leading us to greater G rand M an as the ever-living and
ity. T his child comes to us from the th e race; (4) the child, the in d is­ power, glory and joy th an ever. growing Cross of H u m an ity , with
“ Holy M other,” with every babe, putable fact and* “ link by which The im p artiality and reliability of its C ontinuity growing through the
as a new creation and beginning of the generations are concatenated the Universe-God, and I t ’s infinite Ages, and its S olidarity em brac­
ex ten t integrating an infinite va­ ing the E a rth , thus:
the hum an race, with its freshness into one enduring c h a in .’’
of youth and out-flow of boundless
Now th a t Science has disclosed riety of phenom ena far transcends
hope and aspiration.
and em phasized these facts, the the older Deistic conceptions, aud
In these four grand divisions, nam es are a m atter of u tility and is an inexhaustible source of every
Science realizes the sacred nam es convenience m ain ly : The W orld, varying em otions, taxing and ex­
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an d sym bols of old, and m akes N ature or It, Man, W om an, Child panding hum an nature to the u t­
them represent the great an d in ­ m ay replace the God, C hrist, V ir­ term ost. Byron, Shelley, W ords­
d isp utable realities of existence— gin and In fan t of the old religious worth and Goethe have only begun
the inevitable foundations of the dialects. But we m ust not forget to unfold w hat hum an a rt will reap T he A rm s (extended)—Solidarity of th e R ace;
O ur P reseu t L ife and G eneration.
New Life of M ankind on E a rth .
th a t language began by, and is from the cosmic em otions, as the
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of every generation is to see th a t a took “ his” place and began to the personal God,now merged in the
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better generation takes its place.’’ “ bring forth” and blossom into I Infinite M onism, ’ be found and util-
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of apotheosis upon the child. Not glory,lim ited and defined the neuter, ing in the corporate being H u ­
S ain t Peter, but the child, m ust “ T he Not I,” i. e., either (L atin , m anity, ever destined to become
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Rut why offend Liberals by using hail and blossom. And so we are m ent of the surface of our P lanet.
Y our ingenuity m ay develop and
the words Religion and God a t all? able to drop the gods and god­ H um an beneficence, prayer and carry forw ard the details of th is
C an’t the facts be facts w ithout the desses and to take the W orld as the thanksgiving take th e place of the fruitful symbol. T he New Life
nuisance of th is old, outw orn and sim ple “ Act,” or F a c t,” it is. B ut, old. The affections an d w orship of the New W orld will be be re a l­
bloody dress? C ertainly; use your most unfortunately, uo other peo­ which have been vainly expended ized and sum m ed up and saved
own words. But we are showing ple can, because no other language on the super-personal Infinite are only as it is invested in M an , th is
th a t E volution compels the old re­ can de-personify the W orld as sim ply now to be revised and devoted to! im m ortal Savior. G rad u ally the
ligionists to use their sym bols with to It. T hink of all the S outhern the H u m au ity , the greatest A n i­ Fine A rts will be transferring th eir
no m eaning a t all, or else to put E uropeans and South Am ericans, m ate Being,which is uow coming to noble efforts from the divine to this
under them the very facts an d re­ with their “ B astard L a tin ” la n ­ cousciousuess aud the control of it­ hum an Being, with ever-increasing
alities upon which the Liberals and guages and Romish religion, w ith ­ self. The New Life will have all of brilliancy and effect. The G reat
“ the rest of the world” for th a t out a neuter gender or the right of its work, pleasures and duties, Buildings, P aintings, Poetry and
m atter, are compelled by Science to “ private judgm ent!” W as there whether personal, dom estic or c iv il,1 Music of our c e n tu iy are “ religi­
agree. Evolution thus m akes the ever a sadder sight? M ay not brought into order, aud oriented, ous,” but in the new hum an, aud
old religion a bridge to the new. Legislation introduce the neuter by bringing them into theii true not in the old Theological sense.
But why “ Religion?”
gender into those languages, and relations to this great T rin ity of
So, too, is it with the In tellect
The Liberals from P aine, Corate, Secular Education the h ab it of M an, W om an and C hild, ever liv ­ at. d Bhi losophy of our E ra; it is
H olyoake and Ingersoll have freely F reethought instead of F aith into ing aud growing through the ages H um an, Scientific, Positive.
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used the phrase, “ The Religion of those peoples?. Then m ay the as oue m ighty In d iv id u al. This method of correlative verification is
H u m an ity ,” which Paine originated neuter W orld take its proper place, New Being is practically a new dis­ the new Key of the Universe which
in the Seventh N um ber of his C ri­ and the gods and goddesses be left covery of Science, which discovery has opened and will continue to
sis. Often the word “Science” is in Theology or live in Poetry. began by B runo at the sam e time open the world of the infinitely
included: T he Religion of Science O therwise it seems th a t general he was announcing the New Cos­ great and the infinitely sm all, with
and H u m au ity. The words R e - ' progress can advance only as the mos. I t began by the realization new conceptions and trium phs
ligion and God seem to be of d u b i­ E nglish becomes the universal la n ­ of progress in H um an H istory, as a which are now beyond our com pre­
ous etym ology, but th eir m odern use guage, for there seems to be no converging continuity of collective hension. In tim e we may learn to
and raeaniug has become clear other sufficient instrum ent of ob­ hum an life aud effort, of which sense and u n d erstan d the E th er .
enough. A religion is a belief th at jective thought practically a v a il­ each generation was the conscious But still more true, if possible, is
“ holds m any people together” in a able. Fetiehism of gender d o m in ­ existence in S olidarity. T his con­ the hum an progress of our practical
ception is the G rand M an , which
mode of life and w orship around ates every other language.
some common object, person or< But this all-im p o rtan t habit of ob- every individual is the condensed
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