• MORALS — SANS GOD
By Otto Wettatein.
Caesar Lombreso: — We find there
are fewer criminals where Atheists
abound than wiiere, under similar con­
ditions, Catholics and Protestants' are
in the majority.
Gewge William Foote;—The entire
observance of religious duties ought to
cease. There is too much time wasted
in going to church, and too much
money wasted in carrying on religious
services. 1 he next century will let the
houses of God decay, and improve the
homes of men; it will stop throwing
away money in the service of worship,
and use it *n educating the children of
the nation; it will make Bunday a live
day insteud of a dead one, as it is
now; it will throw off the incubus oi
religion, and rejoice in doing good to
one another.
Charles Robert Darwin: — Darwin
gave morulity a purely natural basis.
He found lhat morality was a part ol
man's life, not an ornament brought’
down from heaven. Four things, ac­
cording to Darwin, make the founda­
tion ui murals:
1. Man is a sociable animal. He loves
society; he feels sympathy.
2. Man has a power of memory,
which makes him retlect on his action»
and their consequences; he can look
upon himself as a separate self; he
can judge himself.
2. M. ji has a power of memory,
Idea» fly from brain to brain by means
of words. Men learn to know each
other to warn, to praise, to preach.
4. Man has the ability to form hab­
it. Habit is the guarantee of char­
acter. Habit 1» the secret of right con­
duct. Right conduct is not goodness
in a momentary rush, a spasm, a jerk,
but it is a steady habit of mind which
gives a man a moral purpose and
make» him upright and true to the
line of duty.—Agnostic Journal.
Ernest Renan, the renowned histo­
rian philosopher, relate» the happiness
he found in the church, and later, out
of it, as follows:
“In chi'dhood and early youth 1
tasted the purest joys of the believer,
and from the bottom of my soul 1 say
those joys were naught compared with
those 1 feel in the pure contemplation
of the beautiful and the impassioned
pursuit of the true. I wish for all my
brethren who have remained in ortho­
doxy, a peace comparable to that in
which 1 live since my struggles came
to an end and the lulled tempest left
me in the midst of a great still ocean;
a sea without billows and without
shoales, where there is no other star
than reason and no other compass than
one's own heart.”
pose this feeling of unity to be taught Hitt tn
as a religion, and the whole force of
education, of Institutions and of opin­
c
ion directed, as it once was in the case
of religion, to make every person grow
up from infancy surrounded on all
sides both by the profession and by
the practice of it, I think that no one
who can realise this conception will
feel any misgiving about the sufficien­
cy of the ultimate sanction for the
Happiness morality.
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onveyandng
“Can there be mural goveriununt ghosts and the 'Hereafter,' ¡Science
without belief in and the exlstuncc of brings the olive branch of peace.
u personal God'.'” — Rev. Guy hitch Knowledge, translated into love, rev­
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erence, Juulice, beauty, shall surely
H. T. Buckle: — Looking at things
The correct basis of morale, being of change the world's night into day."
upon
a large scale, the religion of
much greater importance than my line­
Ke*. M. H.Uhunli;—1 would develop
mankind is the effect of their improve­
age or personality (which the puelor
the mural ¿ease ui every man so mat
ment, not the cause of it.
challenge»), und no one having an­
it could discern clearly uelwuen right
Herbert Spencer:—“Absolute moral­
swered the above quesliuu exhaustive­ and wiuiig. i Woui euucale every man
ity is the regulation of conduct in such
ly, 1 will usMume the tusk with the aid up to »ucn a Mlai uurd ui morality that
way that pain shall not be inflicted.”
ot a lew ui the world's gruulest think­ no would »nun uvil and luiluw good
ers.
Helen Gardener: — Even though a
wiin no munght or cure us to wheuier
Only a person void or ignorunt ot nuine god was wulclung him or i.ol. 1
religion claim a superhuman origine—
the lirsl principles of murals could ask
and 1 believe they all claim that—
would euucale I ie conscience ui every
»uch u fuulish question. Is u person mun up to such u standaru oi morality,
it must be tested by human reason,
who would steal, but refrains from chat H ail the gou» would steep or uie
and if our highest moral sentiments
four of punishment, morul'! Is he who he would scorn to steul even though he
revolt at any of its dictates, its dic­
would murder but ie too cowurdly to stood, wmie ad the world wuB wrapped
tates must go. For the only good
commit the crime for fear of hell, in siumoer, umid the unguarded treas­
thing about any religion is its moral­
moral? is the wife who would sin but ures ui ms leliowinen. 1 would educate
ity, and morality has nothing to do
dares not for t! e feur of God, vir­ every mun up to such a standard ol
with faith. The one has to do with
tuous ?
right actions in this world; the other
morality thul one cent exacted wrong-
Here u beautiful sentiment from the lully lrum a'other would burn lu»
with unknown quantities in the next.
poet - preacher Prof. David muid «» though it were a hrebrand. 1
The one is a necessity of Time; the
Swing :
other a dream of Eternity. Morality
would educate every man up to such
“The man is to be pitied who asks a slanuurd of morality that if ail the
depends upon universal evolution;
the temple of religion to teach him not gods should sleep or die, unprotected
Faith depend» upon special “revela­
to cheut or slander or destroy his fel­ virtue on the darkest night would be
tion,” and no one can afford to accept
low inun. All these virtues he could sale with him as thougn its wearer
any "revelation” that has yet been of­
loarti at the feet of un Atheist.... No pillow d her head at home upon her
fered to this world.—Helen H. Garden­
one can object to any such ucceptunce mother’s »acred oreast.
er, in “Men, Women and Gods.”
of aid from the church, Protestant,
Huxley;—As 1 stood behind the cof­
Catholic or i’ugan, but one may well fin ci my little son the other day, with
pity the mind which cunnot see that my mind uent un anything but dispu­
integrity does not repose upon Chris- tation, Hie officiating minister read, as
tiatuly or religion for its base; it re­ a part ot his duty, the words, “If the
poses upon that reason, that intelli­ dean rise not aguin, let us eat and
gence, that outspread human lift upon drills, lor tomorrow we die.” 1 cannot
which reiig un itself rests. Mr. Brad- tell you how inexpressibly they
luugh wa» not u believer in a God or u shocked me. Paul had neither wife
A few weeks agj a certain dai'y
»cligion, und yet should that man have nor child, or he must have known that
newspaper in one of the great cities
old u falsehood the public would have this alternat've involved u blasphemy
started a movement for sending a ship
been as much shocked as though the against ail that was best and noblest
load of Christmas present» to the or­
falsehood had been told by a clergy­ in human nature. 1 could have luughed
phans of Europe.
man or an archbishop. No high-toned with scorn. What! because 1 am face
The idea "took”—because it was new
Atheist will soil his lips with u lie. to isce wilii irreparable loss, because
and novel, and it afforded opportunity
This horror of falsehood, come whence 1 have given back to the source from
for cheap notoriety. The fact that a
the falsehood may, teaches us that so­ whence it came the cause of great ha -
ship load of food would have given
ciety itself is founded upon righteous­ ; pines» «till retaining through all niy
greuter and more pressing relief did
ness, und that re'igion instead of being 1 life the blessings which have sprung,
not matter. There was no glory in
the sole cause of honor, is only a sen­ I und will spring, from lhat cause—am
sending food to the starving.
timent of love flaming up towards the 1 to renounce my manhood and, howl­
Now another great daily paper
Creator of man and hl» world. Even ing grovel in bestiality ? Why, the very
comes forward with a scheme for hav-
to the Atheists the young man can re­ ape» know better, and, if you shoot
ii g American homes adopt the orphans
pair to learn the true greatness of liie their young, the poor brutes grieve
of Europe.
profession of the law and the infamy lhe r grief out, and do not immediately
That like the Christmas ship, is more
of falsehood. Some of the modern re­ s ek distraction in a gorge.
or less commendable; and it, too, af­
forms throw away half of their ino-
W. T. Stead i—Mr. W. T. Stead, in
ford» an excellent means of advertis­
mentus by teaching our young men the Contemporary Review, writing on
ing—advertising the newspapers and
thul the church, Christ and God com­ his exprience in connection with the
“some people.”
Benjamin
Disraeli:
—
"Where
knowl
­
mand them away from the ruinous cup Hague Peace Conges», says that there
It is well to relieve distress in Eu­
und to break uway from any harmful was a common ethical conception edge ends religion begins."
rope. It is well to provide homes for
vice. Powerful as this command is, among the 200 delegates. “1 could dis­
Martineau:—The fact is before us the orphans. Both may bring forth
it omits that vast stream of eloquence cern no perceptible difference,” he con­ that Christianity has not Christianized
letters of thanks from kings and
which pours forth from the ethics of tinues, "between Heathen, Moslem, the world, nor has the slightest pros­
queens and lesser dignitaries All of
the world. Does Jesus of Nuzareth Christian or Agnostic. Not more than pect of doing so failing even to pro­
urge the Hie of temperance? So does twenty darkened the doors of any duce the remotest likeness of itself which, to be sure, would make excel­
lent reading in print.
Atheism join in the entreaty and for- place of worship. In none of the de­ where it is most loved and honored.
BUT WHAT OF HOME ?
Wiids any youth to soil his life or his bates was there even the most distant
What
of the hundreds of thousands
John
Stuart
Mill:
—
Who
can
com
­
"mind in any form of pollution. The
allusion to the existence of a Superior pute what the world loses in the multi­ of children in OUR OWN COUNTRY
church, indeed, speaks; but its voice Being."
tude of promising intellects combined to whom Christmas will be but an
is weak wjicn compared with the sol­
Ingersoll:—To love justice, to long with timid characters who dare not empty name—a mockery?
emn tones of ull nations and times— for the right to love mercy, to pity
What of the little babes in OUR
the voice of the entire race or rational the suffering, to assist the weak, to follow out any bold, vigorous, inde­
OWN COUNTRY who are pinning and
pendent
train
of
thought,
lest
it
should
beings. John Stuart Mill was honest forget wrongs and remember benefits,
dying for want of proper nourish­
and noble, but the church could have to love the truth, to be sincere, to utter land them in something which w?uld (
ment?
admit
of
being
considered
irreligious
added nothing to the honor of Mill or honest words, to love liberty, to wage
What of the mothers whose breasts
or
immoral
?
of Harriet Martineau; that was spot­ relentless war against slavery in all
are empty because the table is bare ?
less; all the temple could have dune, its forms, to love wife and child and
Karl Heinzen:—The belief in a God
What of the fathers who are walk­
was to make the world under their feet friend, to make a happy home, to love has hitherto been the seed of all bloody
ing the streets because there is no em­
the home of a God. and death, the the beautiful in art, in nature; to cul­ dissensions among men. The various
ployment for them ?
gateway to a richer existence.”
tivate the mind, to be familiar with ways of worshiping an imaginary be­ What of the young girls in the great
Who but an Atheist or a mind deep­ the mighty thoughts that genius has ing have caused more war» and ruin
cities who are dragged down to the
ly in sympathy with atheism, could have expressed the noble deeds of all the than all the varieties of other inter­
depths because their positions are
spoken such beautiful words and their world; to cultivate courage and cheer­ est«. With the disappearance of be-
gone, their board bills are overdue, and
deep meaning in a Chicago pulpit?
fulness, to make others happy, to fill ilef in God, disappears the foundation they have nowhere to turn—no great
of all religious hostility, and in its
To Give l:p Errors Is No Loes, but a life with the splendor of generous acts, place arises the foundation of human paper to hand a campaign in their
the
warmth
of
loving
words;
to
dis
­
behalf?
Gain.
card errors, to destroy prejudice, to equality and universal peace. All wars
Europe has our sympathy—it should
In reply to the question: "What will
receive new truths with gladness, to have sprung from two grounds: on the have what assistance we may reason­
you give us in place of our religion?"
political field, the monarchical subjects
I will quote the beautiful words of Dr. cultivate hope, to see the calm beyond fight for their earthly despots; on the ably extend.
the storm, the dawn beyond the night;
BUT CHARITY SHOULD BEGIN
Paul (arua:—
to do the best that can be done and religious, the godly subjects fight for AT HOME—and the L rd knows there
"inquire int' truth, and the truth
then be resigned—this is the religion their heavenly ones; and as on the i is abundant call for it in the United
will guide yoi.. Accept the truth and
of reason, the cieed of science. This political field the abolition of Royal States today.
live it, for the truth is ulways good.
satisfies the brain and heart. — The Majesty and its subjects lays the
But then there is no glory in that—
If the truth appears evil to you or
foundation for a union of the nations,
Creed of Science.
no advertising for the newspapers—
saddening, know that you have either
Tyndall:—It may comfort some to so on the religious domain, the aboli­ no notoriety for the givers.
misunderstood it or that you have not
kr.ow that there are among us many tion of the Divine Majesty and its be­
It is just charity—and plain char­
as yet ful'y made it your own. The
whom the gladiators of the pulpit lievers lays the foundation for the sol­ ity is not popular.
Sei.
truth must become the very essence of
would call Atheists and Materialists, idarity of humanity.
your being; it must be your own soul
whose lives, nevertheless, as tested by
Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
and your inmost Belf. Errors are a
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Materialism, when compared with
consolation can be found in truth only.
Shall
be
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deeds
of
love.
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Trust in truth, for there is no other
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has any particular offensiveness to me. Amo shall be the password through
its gates;
Emerson:—"The new church will be If I wished to find men scrupulous
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