The philosophy of unbelief in morals and religion .. by Hooker Herman

Author:Hooker, Herman. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: [n.p.]
Published: 1850-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

immoralities which an overgrown estimation of ourselves will not permit us to fear or condemn.

Man is always growing morally better or worse, and worse he is surely growing, without much care and study to become better; and if it be a care and study not heeding the counsel, nor depending on the grace of God, little will be done. The extremes, the temporal hazards, of iniquity, may be shunned; the corruption of nature may run in the forms of a severe morality, but in the end nothing will be found at the bottom but self-importance; it will be seen that he has only < brought forth fruit unto himself ;' x and the very shunning of vices and the practice of unusual virtues, so called, may have contributed to this his natural growth. What then, without the most industrious care, must be his progress? The influence of his selfish passions increases with his wants, and sensibility cools with the advance of age. Conscience, once tender and quick to do her office, becomes dilatory. The indulgence of evil desires, once attended with remorse, is now attended with pleasure. Duties, once considered duties and never neglected without pain, now seem hardly to be duties, and are omitted without any compunction or care that they are so. Acts of overreaching injustice, or of withholding avarice, have been repeated 1 Hos. x< l.

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