The Religious Demands of the Age : A Reprint of the Preface to the London Edition of the Collected Works of Theodore Parker (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Religious Demands of the Age: A Reprint of the Preface to the London Edition of the Collected Works of Theodore Parker

The progress of religious belief, from a less to a more enlightened stage, is carried on apparently by a series of waves of thought, which sweep over the minds of men at distant intervals. There are periods of comparative calm and stag nation, and then times of gradual swelling and upheaving of the deep, till some great billow slly rears its crest above the surface, higher and still higher to the last; when, With a mighty convulsion, amid foam and spray, and noise of many waters, it topples over, and bursts in thun der up the beach, bearing the flood-line higher than it had ever reached before. A great national reformation has been accomplished.

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