Dogma Is The Convictions Of

Few Are There That Will Leave The Secure Seclusion Of The Scholar's Life, The Peaceful Walks Of Literature And Learning, To Stand Out A Target For The Criticism Of Unkind And Hostile Minds.

I Believe In The Supreme Excellence Of Righteousness; I Believe That The Law Of Righteousness Will Triumph In The Universe Over All Evil; I Believe That In The Attempt To Fulfil The Law Of Righteousness, However Imperfect It Must Remain, Are To Be Found The Inspiration, The Consolation, And The Sanctification Of Human Existence. We Live In Order To Finish An, As Yet, Unfinished Universe, Unfinished So Far As The Human, That Is, The Highest Part Of It, Is Concerned. We Live In Order To Develop The Superior Qualities Of Man Which Are, As Yet, For The Most Part Latent.

Dogma Is The Convictions Of One Man Imposed Authoritatively Upon Others.

By What Sort Of Experience Are We Led To The Conviction That Spirit Exists? On The Whole, By Searching, Painful Experience. The Rose Religion Grows On A Thorn-bush, And We Must Not Be Afraid To Have Our Fingers Lacerated By The Thorns If We Would Pluck The Rose.

The Right For The Right's Sake Is The Motto Which Everyone Should Take For His Own Life. With That As A Standard Of Value We Can Descend Into Our Hearts, Appraise Ourselves, And Determine In How Far We Already Are Moral Beings, In How Far Not Yet.