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If agnostics lose heavily on the one side, they gain a good deal on the other.
"Miss," Una murmured, feebly sitting down again. "What's your denomination?... No agnostics or Catholics allowed!" Una heard herself meekly declaring, "Methodist." "Smoke? Swear? Drink liquor? Got any bad habits?" "No!" "Got a lover, sweetheart, gentleman friend? If so, what name or names?" "No." "That's what they all say.
"I should think the prosperity of Mrs. Harmon would convince the most negative of agnostics that there was an overruling Providence, if nothing else did," said Sewell. "It's so defiant of all law, so delightfully independent of causation." "Well, let Barker alone with her, then," said his wife, rising to leave him to the hours of late reading which she had never been able to break up.
Haeckel and other German monists assume such a condition for all substance. They are not agnostics, therefore, but gnostics; and their gnosticism very much resembles that of the higher Buddhism. According to Buddhism there is no reality save Buddha: all things else are but Karma.
I am not one of those who believe in making concessions to agnostics and atheists. You were entirely right, in my opinion, when you said that we who belong to the Church and of course you meant all orthodox Christians should stand by our faith as delivered by the saints.
It may be argued that if atheists and agnostics when they set themselves to express the good will that is in them, do shape out God, that if their conception of right living falls in so completely with the conception of God's service as to be broadly identical, then indeed God, like the ether of scientific speculation, is no more than a theory, no more than an imaginative externalisation of man's inherent good will.
"As for your Agnostics," said he, "their main occupation in their own next world is to read the poetry of George Eliot and the philosophical works of Mr. J. S. Mill." On hearing this, I was much consoled for having missed the entrance to my proper sphere, and I prepared to follow my guide with cheerful alacrity, into the paradise of the Ojibbeways.
He had joined an Artizans' Mutual Improvement Society established in the town about the time of his arrival there; its members being young men of all creeds and denominations, including Churchmen, Congregationalists, Baptists, Unitarians, Positivists, and others agnostics had scarcely been heard of at this time their one common wish to enlarge their minds forming a sufficiently close bond of union.
But I remember the thought, for it struck me with force, that if Christianity were so thoroughly discredited by evolution, as Ralph Hambleton and other agnostics would have one believe, why should this remarkably sane and able-looking person be standing up for it as though it were still an established and incontrovertible fact?
He had a live taste and talent for the English tongue, which he devoted to the task of keeping Victorian rationalism rational. He did not succeed. As so often happens when a rather unhealthy doubt is in the atmosphere, the strongest words of their great captain could not keep the growing crowds of agnostics back from the most hopeless and inhuman extremes of destructive thought.
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