"
In religion, as with children at night, it is darkness and ignorance which
create dread; light and love cast out fear.
In looking forward to the future we may fairly hope with Ruskin that "the
charities of more and more widely extended peace are preparing the way for
a Christian Church which shall depend neither on ignorance for its
continuance, nor on controversy for its progress, but shall reign at once
in light and love."
[1] Shelley.
[2] Arnold. _Pearls of the Faith_.
[3] Tennyson.
[4] Wordsworth.
[5] Chaucer.
[6] Fuller.
CHAPTER XII.
THE HOPE OF PROGRESS.
"To what then may we not look forward, when a spirit of scientific
inquiry shall have spread through those vast regions in which the
progress of civilization, its sure precursor, is actually commenced
and in active progress? And what may we not expect from the exertions
of powerful minds called into action under circumstances totally
different from any which have yet existed in the world, and over an
extent of territory far surpassing that which has hitherto produced
the whole harvest of human intellect.
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