Evolution and religion / by A.J. Dadson.

  • Dadson, A. J. (Arthur J.)
Date:
1893
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    not rest content with recognising the services which he rendered to the world by emphasizing in his labour and death the principle of the brotherhood of man, without proclaiming him to be the Supreme Power of the Universe ? In an age when might was right, even more than at present, he might well have been honoured for his fearless advocacy of truth and justice. But to invest him with the character and attributes of divinity is the greatest mockery to be found in the whole history of the human race. Viewing all the circumstances of his life and death, it is inconceivable to us that this poor social reformer, who defended himself against his accusers as best he could, as any other man would have done, and who, in spite of all his endeavours to battle with his enemies and the adverse circumstances in which he found himself placed, had eventually to submit to the greatest indignities, the most brutal treatment, and an ignominious death reserved for the most despised of human kind—it is, we say, incredible that this poor mortal, with all his manifestations of human weak- nesses, should have been worshipped for so many centuries as the veritable god or Power of the Uni- verse—a Power so transcendently vast and inscrut- able that the mind utterly fails to realize the faintest conception of its stupendous magnitude, or its incomprehensible and unknowable character. Truly, amid all the complexities of our mysterious life, with the fallible nature of all human endeavour, there is not one event from which great issues have sprung which can compare for one moment, in the infantile character of its error, with the deification for nineteen hundred years of a poor, despised, mur- M