id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 36797 Holyoake, George Jacob The Principles of Secularism .txt text/plain 15405 813 63 SECULARISM is the study of promoting human welfare by material means; Secular principles involve for mankind a future, where there shall "Secularism accepts no authority but that of Nature, adopts no methods Secularism holds it to be the duty of every man to reserve a portion of advancing the Secular good of this life, of the authority of natural action of all who believe it right to promote the Secular good of this life, to teach morality, founded upon the laws of Nature, and to rightfulness of its principles and duties both for life and death. SECULARISM means the moral duty of man in this life deduced from the more difficult relations of man to God. Our duties to humanity, Secular improvement of this life--Unity of thought and action upon these Secularism seeks the material purity of the present life, at him who declares the Secular right to be essentially a Christian ./cache/36797.txt ./txt/36797.txt