“The superstition of progress asserts itself in some such fashion as this in our lesson rooms,best-sellers and high-lesson journals: Man is naturally superior and indefinitely perfectible, and thanks to distinguished cosmic floods of evolution will be swept forward and forward until he becomes a kind of a god. Goodness increases with time, or while evil and error decline. History represents the gradual but regular advance of man up the hill of the more abundant and happy life. No special institutions,no moral discipline, no Divine grace are necessary for the progress of man; for progress is automatic, or due to the
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