stic, but few will be convinced.
The statement that Socialism has nothing to do with religion, or
that many professedly religious people are Socialist, is quite
futile. A thoughtful religionist would reply that the first point
concedes the truth of all that has been said against Socialism,
while the second evades the question at issue. No one is specially
concerned with the mental idiosyncracies of individual Socialists;
what is at issue is the question whether Socialism does or does not
take an Atheistic view of life? He might add, too, that a Socialism
which leaves out the belief in God and a future life, which does
not, in even the remotest manner, imply these beliefs, which does
not make their acceptance the condition of holding the meanest
office in the State, and, at most, will merely allow religious
beliefs to exist so long as they do not threaten the well-being of
the State, is, to all intents and purposes, an Atheistical
system."--Chapman Cohen.

In summing up the results of his investigations Prof. Leuba observes
that:

In every class of persons investigated, the number of believers in
God is less and in most classes very much less than the number of
non-believers, and that the number of believers in immortality is
somewhat larger than in a personal God; that among the more
distinguished, unbelief is very much more frequent than among the
less distinguished; and finally that not only the degree of
ability, but also the kind of knowledge possessed, is significantly
related to the rejection of these beliefs.

In another connection Prof. Leuba speaking of Christian dogmatism as a
whole says:

Christianity, as a system of belief, has utterly broken down, and
nothing definite, adequate, and convincing has taken its place.
There is no generally acknowledged authority; each one believes as
he can, and few seem disturbed at being unable to hold the tenets
of the churches. This sense of freedom is the glorious side of an
otherwise dangerous situation.

Your conception of the origin, sustenance and governance of the universe
is burdened, as are all interpretations of religion which are hinged
upon the existence of conscious, personal divinities, with two
difficulties: (1) its physical impossibility, and (2) its moral
impossibility.

1. Physical Impossibilities. The atom