The 19th Century a Review of Progress
The 19th Century a Review of Progress
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Bossuet could base a history of mankind upon the assumption that the Hebrew legend represented indisputable historic truth. By the beginning of the nineteenth century the progress of rationalism had made such a position impossible. After Voltaire it was impos- sible to take the historical truth of the Bible narratives as a postulate needing no further proof. The eighteenth- century rationalism, however, had been content to deny without caring to explain the beliefs. It accepted, we may say, the... orthodox assumption that religions had 370 Evolution and Religious Conceptions 37 1 been originated by professed revelations. It differed by declaring that the revelations were in fact false, and in- ferring that the founders of religions were deceivers. Religion was based upon imposture and supported by the devices of priestcraft in alliance with tyranny. The en- thusiasm for the reign of reason took, therefore, the form of demanding a complete breach with the past. Churches, like political institutions, were to be simply abolished, and the creeds upon which they reposed were to be dis- proved as simply false.
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Bossuet could base a history of mankind upon the assumption that the Hebrew legend represented indisputable historic truth. By the beginning of the nineteenth century the progress of rationalism had made such a position impossible. After Voltaire it was impos- sible to take the historical truth of the Bible narratives as a postulate needing no further proof. The eighteenth- century rationalism, however, had been content to deny without caring to explain the beliefs. It accepted, we may say, the... orthodox assumption that religions had 370 Evolution and Religious Conceptions 37 1 been originated by professed revelations. It differed by declaring that the revelations were in fact false, and in- ferring that the founders of religions were deceivers. Religion was based upon imposture and supported by the devices of priestcraft in alliance with tyranny. The en- thusiasm for the reign of reason took, therefore, the form of demanding a complete breach with the past. Churches, like political institutions, were to be simply abolished, and the creeds upon which they reposed were to be dis- proved as simply false.
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