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Show @ggap on that the bad are successful; that justice i @ompengation not done now. The blindness of the preache consisted in deferring to the base estimat of the market of what constitutes a manl success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth; announ cing the Presence of the Soul; the omnipotence of the Will; and so establishing th standard of good and ill, of success an falsehood, and summoning the dead to it present tribunal I find a similar base tone in the popula religious works of the day, and the sam doctrines assumed by the literary men whe occasionally they treat the related topics. think that our popular theology has gaine in decorum, and not in principle, over th superstitions it has displaced. But men ar better than this theology. Their daily lif gives it the lie. Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him i his own experience, and all men feel some times the falsehood which they canno demonstrate. For men are wiser than the Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library U |