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acknowledged this truth , and growing into strength , Monotheism , revealed to the enlightened , challenged the scattered and erring creeds of the world . There we remain at the present time , gaining
fresh vigour by its noble truth , and from day to day we learn more and more , progressing for ever , of the wisdom and affection of the Almighty Being , as revealed by His works , who formed and sustains the universal frame .
Within limits of certain , though unknown , extent , man is his own master , the arbiter of his own fate . The universal law appears to be tending towards an extension of these limits . Man opposes himself to the decrees of Grod the Creator when he neglects to go forward with the ages . Progress and improvement , however retarded by the guilty but necessary opposition of humanity , must extend and
permeate all things . Human opposition to the Divine law is easily explained , as an issue of the fall * We proceed from the known to the unknown , and remain enslaved ; learn , know , feel , and we are free . Never let anything certain go for an uncertainty , is the cry of every philosophy and practice whatever . Still the old truths come out upon us in new shapes from time to time , and the law of Providence forces on their progress with irresistible might .
May there come such a time as that which I described some few pages above , an honest and Grod-fearing age , when our national evils will be healed , and our crimes and mistakes erased by a better order of things ! But ere all this happier time can become fully consummated and remain always with us , it is necessary for us to listen with simplicity
and earnestness to the experience accumulated through the ages , to seek the tombs of the dead nations , and listen to their warning voices . To us who are the inheritors of the sorrows and struggles , as well as of the triumphs and learning , of antiquity , more has been given , and of us more will be required . Then let us not despise the
study of Sociology , a science which began with the first breath of man , and which in its endless course has been leading us nearer and nearer to a better state of national existence , and will , when properly understood , imbue us with a purer faith , a sincerer appreciation of the wonderful design of the Almighty Hand of our Father in Heaven .
Notes On Antiquarian Research.
NOTES ON ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCH .
( Continued from page 414 . ) CHAPTER V . IIUDIBEAS , "We have heard Samuel Butler termed " a lewd old fellow , " and .
taking the word " lewd" in its old acceptation of " layman , ' or even in its modern meaning of " licentious , " it may , perhaps , be applied to him , though wo doubt much if tho author of " Hudibras , "
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acknowledged this truth , and growing into strength , Monotheism , revealed to the enlightened , challenged the scattered and erring creeds of the world . There we remain at the present time , gaining
fresh vigour by its noble truth , and from day to day we learn more and more , progressing for ever , of the wisdom and affection of the Almighty Being , as revealed by His works , who formed and sustains the universal frame .
Within limits of certain , though unknown , extent , man is his own master , the arbiter of his own fate . The universal law appears to be tending towards an extension of these limits . Man opposes himself to the decrees of Grod the Creator when he neglects to go forward with the ages . Progress and improvement , however retarded by the guilty but necessary opposition of humanity , must extend and
permeate all things . Human opposition to the Divine law is easily explained , as an issue of the fall * We proceed from the known to the unknown , and remain enslaved ; learn , know , feel , and we are free . Never let anything certain go for an uncertainty , is the cry of every philosophy and practice whatever . Still the old truths come out upon us in new shapes from time to time , and the law of Providence forces on their progress with irresistible might .
May there come such a time as that which I described some few pages above , an honest and Grod-fearing age , when our national evils will be healed , and our crimes and mistakes erased by a better order of things ! But ere all this happier time can become fully consummated and remain always with us , it is necessary for us to listen with simplicity
and earnestness to the experience accumulated through the ages , to seek the tombs of the dead nations , and listen to their warning voices . To us who are the inheritors of the sorrows and struggles , as well as of the triumphs and learning , of antiquity , more has been given , and of us more will be required . Then let us not despise the
study of Sociology , a science which began with the first breath of man , and which in its endless course has been leading us nearer and nearer to a better state of national existence , and will , when properly understood , imbue us with a purer faith , a sincerer appreciation of the wonderful design of the Almighty Hand of our Father in Heaven .
Notes On Antiquarian Research.
NOTES ON ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCH .
( Continued from page 414 . ) CHAPTER V . IIUDIBEAS , "We have heard Samuel Butler termed " a lewd old fellow , " and .
taking the word " lewd" in its old acceptation of " layman , ' or even in its modern meaning of " licentious , " it may , perhaps , be applied to him , though wo doubt much if tho author of " Hudibras , "