Ingersollism From a Secular Point of View a Lecture Delivered in Association
Ingersollism From a Secular Point of View a Lecture Delivered in Association
George R George Reuben Wendling
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It was the age that read history fresh from the unrivalled pen of Thucydides, and applauded the wonderful dramas of ^Eschylus. It was an age, indeed, that saw in sculptured marble rarer forms of grace and beauty and majestic power than the world ever saw before or since ; that heard strains of eloquence and poetry as thrilling as ever fell on mortal ear ; that pon- dered the grave problems of life with as profound insight as unaided intellect has ever FROM A SECULAR POINT OF VIEW. 65 shown ; an...d in every department of specula- tive philosophy reached the very mountain heights of human endeavor. Again do I ask, why, in such an age as that, do we find such a condition of public morals ? The answer is simple, direct, and unmis- takably true : Because there was no univer- sally recognized standard of moral truth ; because there was no generally accepted code of right; and because there was no order of men to instruct the masses in morals. An- cient Ingersollism held' undisputed sway, and universal night brooded over land and sea.
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