Excerpt from The True Religion and Its Dogmas AS long as we find it impossible to admire what blights the fairest hopes and thwarts the highest aspirations of man, so long Shall we be unable to accede to the claims of Rationalists, or grant that their work is the noblest ever accomplished among men. We need but glance about us to be con vinced of the ruinous effects of their teaching. Man seems to have lost the sense of his true dig nity; he lives as if the span of the present were the limit of his destiny; the family no longer wears that halo of glory which caused it to Shine with a divine Splendor, and rendered it capable of the high mission it was to perform for the race; and society, God's great institution, the mother of order, the protectress of right, now declining from her high state, degraded from her mission, enfee bled in her authority, presents only the appearance of a ~mechan~ism, formidablegit is true, bum-for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.