Temple of Reason, and Dignity of Self-Government: Dedicated to the American Republic, as a Compendium of Political, Philosophical, and Moral Elements, Applicable to Our Republican Form of Government (Classic Reprint)
Temple of Reason, and Dignity of Self-Government: Dedicated to the American Republic, as a Compendium of Political, Philosophical, and Moral Elements, Applicable to Our Republican Form of Government (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Temple of Reason, and Dignity of Self-Government: Dedicated to the American Republic, as a Compendium of Political, Philosophical, and Moral Elements, Applicable to Our Republican Form of Government Therefore all human creeds, not embracing these divine principles, are baseless in truth, and as evanescent as the eeting clouds of heaven. God in the beginning created all things to work by self-governing laws. Man ac cepted, he being endowed with spiritual and bodily senses to know his dignified station, as a ...
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Excerpt from Temple of Reason, and Dignity of Self-Government: Dedicated to the American Republic, as a Compendium of Political, Philosophical, and Moral Elements, Applicable to Our Republican Form of Government Therefore all human creeds, not embracing these divine principles, are baseless in truth, and as evanescent as the eeting clouds of heaven. God in the beginning created all things to work by self-governing laws. Man ac cepted, he being endowed with spiritual and bodily senses to know his dignified station, as a deity of earth to govern it as a free agent, accountable to God and man for the rule of his action. All we know of God is in the works of his creation, conspicuous in the heavens above and earth beneath - the mighty sun, first born of creative power, the vivifying heat, light, life, and motion of surrounding worlds, all circling His throne in harmony, as an index to man, whereby to imitate his example. This is all the revelation or inspiration God ever or dained to give to man - all human revelation or inspira tion given by fallible man is designing hypocricy to gain credit for wisdom he cannot possess. Here are no fabu lous tales from books written in the dark ages of the world, and believed in preference to science and reason. Some believe in one indivisible God, some in a triune God-head, one of which was the illegitimate son of a woman - some in a plurality of Gods, equal in number to the stars of heaven - some in images, like Diana of the Ephesians - some like Solomon, worshiping beings the loveliest of God's creation, with images of earth andocean, thus making religion changeable as fancy or ih terest dictates. All the prime founders and teachers of religion claimed immortality, yet when they found it could not carry them to heaven, all died subject to the laws of mortality, thus showing a sorrowful picture of the deluders of a sensitive but-not a wise world. Melchisedek got so great by plunder and spoils, that he styled himself king and high priest of God forever. Moses styled himself the oracle of God, who possessed two distinctive na tures, good and evil, which he and his nation practiced through life. Jesus styled himself supreme God, yet his divinity could not save him from an ignominious death. Mohammed styled himself the true prophet of God, with one creed and one paradise for the souls of the just. The Pope of Rome styles himself the holy vice-gerent of God, in imitation of Jesus, He that seeth me seeth God, him in me and I in him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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