They Have The Great
Qualities Of The Anglo-Saxon Race - Industry, Intelligence, And
Self-Confidence; And If These Qualities Will No Longer Suffice To
Keep Such A People On Their Legs, The World Must Be Coming To An
End.
I have said that it is not a common thing to meet an American who
belongs to no denomination of Christian worship.
This I think is
so but I would not wish to be taken as saying that religion, on
that account, stands on a satisfactory footing in the States. Of
all subjects of discussion, this is the most difficult. It is one
as to which most of us feel that to some extent we must trust to
our prejudices rather than our judgments. It is a matter on which
we do not dare to rely implicitly on our own reasoning faculties,
and therefore throw ourselves on the opinions of those whom we
believe to have been better men and deeper thinkers than ourselves.
For myself, I love the name of State and Church, and believe that
much of our English well-being has depended on it. I have made up
my mind to think that union good, and am not to be turned away from
that conviction. Nevertheless I am not prepared to argue the
matter. One does not always carry one's proof at one's finger
ends.
But I feel very strongly that much of that which is evil in the
structure of American politics is owing to the absence of any
national religion, and that something also of social evil has
sprung from the same cause.
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