Evolution and Effort: And Their Relation to Religion and Politics (Classic Reprint)

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Among the great forces in the world is religion. We tend to regard religion too little as a force, too much as an institution. And yet regarded as a force religion is probably the greatest ally man has; re garded as an institution she has been sometimes in the past, and doubtless is still to a less extent to-day, his greatest enemy.

This book is an attempt to rescue the force from the institution; to establish its place in the new process of evolution in man as contrasted with the old process which preceded man; to determine its relation to science, to wisdom, to human effort; what are the limits of effort; how they are determined by environment, how far they depend upon con scious choice; the lines along which effort should be directed; the great problems of the world such as pauperism, socialism, education; through what agency they can best be solved; the role of the State; the neglected and yet indispensable instru mentality of politics - and this with a view to pre senting an argument in favour of an alliance between politics and religion in the struggle of man with evil and. With pain.

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