E-text prepared by Irma Spehar and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/warandchurches00mccauoft THE WAR AND THE CHURCHES by JOSEPH McCABE [Issued for the Rationalist Press Association, Limited] London: Watts & Co. 17 Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, E.C. 1915 WORKS BY THE AUTHOR _Modern Rationalism_ (Watts), 2nd ed. 1/- _Peter Abelard_ (Duckworth), 2nd ed. 3/6. _Saint Augustine and his Age_ (Duckworth), 2nd ed. 3/6. _Twelve Years in a Monastery_ (Smith Elder), 3rd ed. _6d._ and 1/- _Life in a Modern Monastery_ (Grant Richards). 6/- _Life and Letters of G. J. Holyoake_ (Watts), 2 vols. L1/1/- _Talleyrand_ (Hutchinson). 14/- _The Iron Cardinal_ (Nash). 12/- _Goethe_ (Nash). 15/- _A Candid History of the Jesuits_ (Nash). 10/6. _The Evolution of Mind_ (Black). 5/- _Evolution_ (Twentieth Century Science Series). 1/- _Prehistoric Man_ (Twentieth Century Science Series). 1/- _The Principles of Evolution_ (The Nation's Library). 1/- _The Decay of the Church of Rome_ (Methuen), 2nd ed. 7/6. _The Story of Evolution_ (Hutchinson), 2nd ed. 7/6. _The Empresses of Rome_ (Methuen). 12/6. _The Empresses of Constantinople_ (Methuen). 12/6. _Church Discipline_ (Duckworth). 3/6. _Can we Disarm?_ (Heinemann). 2/6. _In the Shade of the Cloister_ (pseudonymous--Constable). 6/- _The Bible in Europe_ (Watts). 3/6. _The Religion of Woman_ (Watts), 2nd ed. _6d._ _Woman in Political Evolution_ (Watts). _6d._ _Haeckel's Critics Answered_ (Watts), 2nd ed. _6d._ _From Rome to Rationalism_ (Watts), 4th ed. _4d._ _The Origin of Life_ (Watts). 1/- _Secular Education_ (Watts), 2nd ed. 1/- _The Martyrdom of Ferrer_ (Watts), 2nd ed. _6d._ _The Religion of the Twentieth Century_ (Watts). 1/- _A Hundred Years of Education Controversy_ (Watts). _3d._ _The Existence of God_ (Watts). _9d._ _Shakespeare and Goethe_ (Cole). _6d._ _George Bernard Shaw_ (Kegan Paul). 7/6. _The Religion of Sir Oliver Lodge_ (Watts). 2/- PREFACE