Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?


Theology (ed. 1884)


Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations,...

Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations,...

Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations,...

Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations,...