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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Appendix
literature; the self-assertion, by long-

oppressed nationalities, of their rights and

liberties; the approximation to a commercial

and political unity of the human race, — all

tend to foster the idea of man’s inherent

capacity, and to set afloat wild and chimerical

schemes and hopes of moral regeneration,

irrespective of Christianity. The dream of

independent morality finds countenance.

Theories of spiritual development, more

exaggerated and fictitious by far than these of

physical development, are accepted. The

march of intelligence, or the revolutionary

impulse, is to make all things new. Meanwhile,

the sad and humbling aspects of the

nineteenth century — its hideous vices and

crimes, its luxury, selfishness, and greed set

over against pauperism, debasement, and

discontent; its wars and international feuds,