The Bible contains the annals of One of the main supports of the the heavens, the earth, and the reactionary system is what we may human race; like the Deity call “anthropism.” I designate by himself, it contains all that was, this term that powerful and is, and will be. On its first page world-wide group of erroneous we read of the beginning of time opinions which opposes the human and of things, and on its last organism to the whole of the rest page the end of time and of of nature, and represents it as things. It begins with Genesis, the preordained end of organic which is an idyll, and ends with creation, an entity essentially Revelation, which is a funeral distinct from it, a god-like chant. Genesis is as beautiful as being. Closer examination of this the fresh breeze which sweeps over group of ideas shows it to be made the world; as the first dawn of up of three different dogmas, light in the heavens; as the first which we may distinguish as the flower that opens in the meadows; anthropocentric, the as the first word of love spoken anthropomorphic, and the by men; as the first appearance of anthropolatrous. the sun in the east. Revelation is as sad as the last palpitation of 1. The anthropocentric dogma nature; as the last ray of the culminates in the idea that man is sun; as the last breath of a dying the preordained centre and aim of man. And between the funeral chant all terrestrial life—or, in a and the idyll there pass in wider sense, of the whole succession before the eyes of God universe. As this error is all generations and all peoples. extremely conducive to man’s The tribes and the patriarchs go interest, and as it is intimately by; the republics and the connected with the creation-myth magistrates; the monarchies and of the three great Mediterranean their kings; the empires and their religions, and with the dogmas of emperors. Babylon and all its the Mosaic, Christian, and abominations go by; Nineveh and Mohammedan theologies, it still all its pomps; Memphis and its dominates the greater part of the priests; Jerusalem and its civilised world. prophets and temple; Athens and its arts and heroes; Rome and its 2. The anthropomorphic dogma, diadem of conqueror of the world. also, is connected with the Nothing lasts but God; all else creation-myth of the three passes and dies, like the froth aforesaid religions and of many that tips the wave. others. It likens the creation and control of the world by God to the artificial creation of an able engineer or mechanic, and to the A prodigious book, which mankind administration of a wise ruler. began to read three and thirty God, as creator, sustainer, and