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402 Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands. the law. The covenanter might commit rape or arson, but he was always willing to shed the last drop of his blood for his covenant, or for a text of his Fetish. Let me conclude this chapter with the words of a great philosopher;—“Ancient creeds and time-honoured formulas are yielding as much to intemal pressure, as to external assault. The expansion of knowledge is loosening the very earth, clutched by the roots of creeds and churches. Science is penetrating everywhere, and slowly penetrating men’s conception of the world, and of man’s destiny. Some considerable thinkers are therefore of opinion that religion has played its part in the evolution of humanity, whilst others— and I hold with these—believe that it has still a part to play, and will continue to regulate the evolution. To do so, however, it must express the highest thought of the time. It must not attempt to imprison the mind, nor force on our acceptance as explanations of the universe, dogmas which were originally the childish guesses at truth by barbarous tribes. It must no longer put forward principles which are unintelligible and incredible, nor make their unintelligibility a source of glory, and a belief in them a higher virtue than belief in demonstration. Instead of proclaiming the nothingness of this life, the worthlessness of human love, and the impotence of the human mind, it will proclaim the supreme importance of this life, the supreme value of human love, and the grandeur of the human intellect.” 1 1 Problems of Life and Mind, by G. H. Lewis, I.
Fig. 163. CHAPTER V. SUN WORSHIP. LET us here imagine the great Solar Deity addressing the assembled Faiths of earth, and advancing his claims to be THE ANCIENT OF DAYS, and UNIVERSAL FATHER:— I am the Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. I am the Sun of Righteousness who ever rise with healing in my wings. Behold my rays or wings proceeding as from a centre of fertility, which yonder ancient Egyptian, Kaldian, and Asyrian have pourtrayed on their cliffs, and dens, and
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CHAPTER V.<br />
SUN WORSHIP.<br />
LET us here imagine the great Solar Deity addressing the assembled Faiths <strong>of</strong> earth,<br />
and advancing his claims to be THE ANCIENT OF DAYS, and UNIVERSAL FATHER:—<br />
I am the Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. I am<br />
the Sun <strong>of</strong> Righteousness who ever rise with healing in my wings. Behold<br />
my rays or wings proceeding as from a centre <strong>of</strong> fertility, which yonder ancient<br />
Egyptian, Kaldian, and Asyrian have pourtrayed on their cliffs, and dens, and
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