taking thought for one's neighbour as for one's self.

So far as such equality, liberty, and fraternity are included under
the democratic principles which assume the same names, the Bible is
the most democratic book in the world. As such it began, through the
heretical sects, to undermine the clerico-political despotism of the
middle ages, almost as soon as it was formed, in the eleventh century;
Pope and King had as much as they could do to put down the Albigenses
and the Waldenses in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the
Lollards and the Hussites gave them still more trouble in the
fourteenth and fifteenth; from the sixteenth century onward, the
Protestant sects have favoured political freedom in proportion to the
degree in which they have refused to acknowledge any ultimate
authority save that of the Bible.

But the enormous influence which has thus been exerted by the Jewish
and Christian Scriptures has had no necessary connection with
cosmogonies, demonologies, and miraculous interferences. Their
strength lies in their appeals, not to the reason, but to the ethical
sense. I do not say that even the highest biblical ideal is exclusive
of others or needs no supplement. But I do believe that the human race
is not yet, possibly may never be, in a position to dispense with it.

FOOTNOTES:

[8] With a few exceptions, which are duly noted when
they amount to more than verbal corrections.

[9] _Declaration on the Truth of Holy Scripture._ The
_Times_, 18th December, 1891.

[10] _Declaration_, Article 10.

[11] Ego vero evangelio non crederem, nisi ecclesiae
Catholicae me commoveret auctoritas.--_Contra Epistolam
Manichaei_, cap. v.

[12] I employ the words "Supernature" and "Supernatural"
in their popular senses. For myself, I am bound to say
that the term "Nature" covers the totality of that
which is. The world of psychical phenomena appears to
me to be as much part of "Nature" as the world of
physical phenomena; and I am unable to perceive any
justification for cutting the Universe into two halves,
one natural and one supernatural.

[13] The general reader will find an admirably clear
and concise statement of the evidence in this case, in
Professor Flower's recently published work _The Horse:
a Study in Natural History_.

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