An Essay on the Profession of Personal Religious Conviction: And Upon the Separation of Church and State, Considered With Reference to the Fulfilment of That Duty (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from An Essay on the Profession of Personal Religious Conviction: And Upon the Separation of Church and State, Considered With Reference to the Fulfilment of That Duty

When the subject, the discussion of which we have under taken, was proposed for competition, the question pro bably arose in the minds Of many persons, whether it were advisable to entertain it, or whether, in the judg ment Of the Society for the Advancement Of Christian Morals,* as well as in that Of every man, the duty Of forming religious convictions should not take precedence Of the duty Of professing them, - whether the present condition Of society, did not rather call for a discussion Of the former than Of the latter subject. The prominent evil Of our age, or rather the most striking symptom Of its unhealthy condition, is the almost universal absence Of conviction, whether upon the subject Of religion, Of morality, or even Of politics. It is not simply that con.

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