The Contemporary Review, January 1883

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8). And then, moreover, there is that great political movement whichhas so largely and directly affected the course of events and theorganization of society on the Continent of Europe, and which in lessmeasure, and with more covert operation, has notably modified our ownways of thinking and acting in this country. Now the Revolution in itsultimate or Jacobin phase, is the very manifestation, in the publicorder, of the tendency which in the intellectual calls itself"scientific. " It bitterly and... contemptuously rejects the belief in thesupernatural hitherto accepted in Europe. It wages implacable war uponthe ancient theology of the world. "It delights in declaring itselfatheistic"[28] (p. 37). It has "a quarrel with theology as a doctrine. 'Theology, ' it says, even if not exactly opposed to social improvement, is a superstition, and as such allied to ignorance and conservatism. Granting that its precepts are good, it enforces them by legends andfictitious stories which can only influence the uneducated, andtherefore in order to preserve its influence it must needs opposeeducation.

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