Philosophy of Freedom, Chapter 12
Source: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
“Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people,”
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?, p. 145
Context: Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The dangers of evolution
The Human Origin of Morals http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/mccabe02.htm (1926), p. 59.
Source: Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen (1971), p. 122
Additional remarks about the proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission, Address to the Editors' Forum, Suva, 27 July 2005
Founding Address (1876), Some Characteristics of the American Ethical Movement (1925)
Context: Spiritual evolution is the progressive advance of mankind toward a state of things in which the light of ethical perfection shall be reflected from the face of human society; that is, in which all men shall live and move and have their being in mutually promoting the highest life of each and all. It means that the object of social reformation shall not be a mere change in the conditions under which men live, but a change in human nature itself. It means that we shall look forward consciously to the breaking forth of new powers in ourselves, to the release, through our own efforts, of capacities dimly latent in us.
