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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
As in its first dawn, Christianity … is beginning to show itself … as a principle … which … is immanent in nature and in man and … is working … to still higher issues … The principle of Christianity has come to self-consciousness, and … is … capable of being held without that mixture of illusion which was inevitable in an earlier age.
(Edward Caird, The Evolution of Religion, Vol. II, 1893, 1899 edn, pp. 315–18)In the conscientious citizen of modern Christendom reason without and reason within … combine to yield both the judgment, and obedience to the judgment … that every human person has an absolute value … that in the estimate of that well-being which forms the true good everyone is to count for one and no one for more than one.
(ed. A. C. Bradley, T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, 1883, 1890 edn, p. 231)Religion is indestructible. … What then, can we in England do for Religion? All that in us lies to secure a form of Christianity in harmony with progress, liberty, and knowledge. How can this be obtained? By making the Church of England a church of intellectual freedom and a church of the people … Can this church of an episcopal sect, this last obstinate remnant of a dead social system … become a church of freedom, a church for the people? Yes it can! It is for the people to decide.
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