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    The Gospel of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures
    The Gospel of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures
    The Gospel of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures
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    The Gospel of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures

    By Edward Aveling

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Gospel of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures - Edward Aveling

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      Title: The Gospel Of Evolution

             From The Atheistic Platform, Twelve Lectures

      Author: Edward Aveling

      Release Date: May 29, 2011 [EBook #36270]

      Last Updated: January 26, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOSPEL OF EVOLUTION ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE GOSPEL OF EVOLUTION

      From The Atheistic Platform, Twelve Lectures

      By Edward Aveling

      London: Freethought Publishing Company

      63, Fleet Street, E.C.

      1884

      THE GOSPEL OF EVOLUTION

      A new and better Gospel is now preached to men. That which has for a long time gone by the name of Gospel (good news) is neither news nor good. It is not news, for it has been preached for nearly nineteen centuries. Not that length of time alone could make it old and effete. But the Gospel of Christianity has not within itself that inherent and strong life of reality which makes even old truths to have a perennial freshness, an eternal youth, Nor is the Gospel of Christianity good. In the tales that it tells us of the past, in the advice that it gives us for the present, and in the hopes and threats it holds out for the future, it is a misleading guide, a poor philosopher, a false friend.

      The legends have it that on the coming of the central figure of the discredited evangel the angels sang together: Peace on earth, good will to men. It was a false alarm. Neither peace nor good will was forthcoming. But with the advent of this scientific gospel, the Gospel of Evolution, comes the possibility of striking a universal peace through sea and land, the possibility of the universal brotherhood of man.

      Perhaps we are all of us too anxious and too hopeful in the feeling that some one idea will save the world. The religious creeds of different races and times are the expression of this anxiety. We that have rejected all belief in the supernatural must take care that the same fancy that has spoilt the lives of so many does not mar our own. We must have a care lest we make too much of some truth, even though it be a scientific conclusion, based on scientific observation and reasoning. And we must not forget that, of all the great

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