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I shall remain faithful to it everywhere, and regardless of success, I shall fight for light and truth. If I see religion hostile, I shall Demop. But you will not! Religion is not a deception; it is true, and the most important of all truths.
The plan was based on a correct knowledge of the intellectual inequality of mankind. Demop. To a certain extent the education in our lower, middle, and high schools represents the different forms of initiation into the mysteries. Phil. Only in a very approximate way, and this only in so far as subjects of higher knowledge were written about exclusively in Latin.
It really never occurs to him to ask the question which of the two is right; but his own articles of belief are to him as � priori certain principles. The Rev. Mr. Morrison has furnished an amusing example of this kind in vol. xx. of the Asiatic Journal wherein he criticises the religion and philosophy of the Chinese. Demop. So that's your higher point of view.
For from such a standpoint the pure and sacred striving after light and truth, to say the least, would seem quixotic and criminal if it should venture in its feeling of justice to denounce the authoritative belief as a usurper who has taken possession of the throne of truth and maintained it by continuing the deception. Demop. But religion is not opposed to truth; for it itself teaches truth.
Phil Wait "Behind the cross stands the devil." Demop. Come, don't let us separate from each other with sarcasms, but rather let us allow that religion, like Janus, or, better still, like the Brahman god of death, Yama, has two faces, and like him, one very friendly and one very sullen. Each of us, however, has only fixed his eyes on one. Phil. You are right, old fellow. Mundi, p. 104, d. Steph.
That a race, which all physical and historical data confirm as having been in existence only about a hundred times the life of a man sixty years old, is still in its first childhood is a fact that every one will admit. Demop.
The result is that the basis of healthy reasoning is once and for all deranged in other words, its feeble capacity for thinking for itself, and for unbiassed judgment in regard to everything to which it might be applied, is for ever paralysed and ruined. Demop, Which really means that the people have gained a conviction which they will not give up in order to accept yours in its place. Phil.
The censurable toleration of pederasty, for which one chiefly reproaches the morality of the ancients, is a trifle compared with the Christian horrors I have cited, and is not so rare among people of to-day as it appears to be. Can you then, taking everything into consideration, maintain that humanity has really become morally better by Christianity? Demop.
It supplies what is wanting, does very poor service for it, and claims to be regarded as a natural leg, and is more or less cleverly put together. There is a difference, however, for, as a rule, the natural leg was in existence before the wooden one, while religion everywhere has gained the start of philosophy. Demop.
Here lies the incurable mischief, the permanent evil; and therefore religion is always in conflict, and always will be with the free and noble striving after pure truth. Demop. Indeed, no. Care has been taken to prevent that. If religion may not exactly admit its allegorical nature, it indicates it at any rate sufficiently. Phil. And in what way does it do that? Demop. In its mysteries.
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