WHAT IS RELIGION?

(1899.)

I. Belief in God and Sacrifice--Did an Infinite God Create the Children

of Men and is he the Governor of the Universe?--II. If this God Exists,

how do we Know he is Good?--Should both the Inferior and the Superior

thank God for their Condition?--III. The Power that Works for

Righteousness--What is this Power?--The Accumulated Experience of the

World is a Power Working for Good?--Love the Commencement of the Higher

Virtues--IV. What has our Religion Done?--Would Christians have been

Worse had they Adopted another Faith?--V. How Can Mankind be Reformed

Without Religion?--VI. The Four Corner-stones of my Theory--VII. Matter

and Force Eternal--Links in the Chain of Evolution--VIII. Reform--The

Gutter as a Nursery--Can we Prevent the Unfit from Filling the World

with their Children?--Science must make Woman the Owner and Mistress

of Herself--Morality Born of Intelligence--IX. Real Religion and Real

Worship.

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