The Boston Quarterly Review, 1842, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Boston Quarterly Review, 1842, Vol. 5Up even with itself the Church has now brought the Christian world. The civilization it has created is even in some respects in advance of it. For a then sand years and more, it was the Church of the Ideal. It was the depositary of the intelligence, the wisdom, the virtue, the aspirations of the race. It proposed a work for humanity, and directed individual and social activities in the path of progress. But it now looks no more to the future. It has realized its Ideal. It pro poses no new labors for civilization, makes no new de mands on the race in behalf of progress. It therefore loses sight of the end for which it was instituted, and must now turn its face once more to the future, em brace the Ideal, or give way for a New Carmen, which shall be an organization of mankind, not to retain the past, but to conquer the future. Humanity eternally aspires. It sees ever before it new heights to be scaled, new victories to be won, and is always eager to march. It cannot be stayed. Ever does the Ideal hover before its actual position, commanding it to advance, and for bidding it to halt, much less encamp If the Church will not lead, humanity will displace it, choose a new leader, and go on without it in its career of battle and conquest.The Church was originally based on the doctrine of the Incarnation of the Word, or the Divine Ideal, in the man Christ Jesus, and on that of the distinction of the two principles, Spirit and Matter, making Spirit the principle of good, and matter the principle of evil.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.