ABSTRACT
A Thousand Years Hence examines the gradual progression, century by century, of leading trends in the late nineteenth century, notably in the labour movement, politics, technology (including space travel), the growing equality of women, and religion. Yet in religious matters Brown was anything but quiet, and was ever seeking a fling at White, whom he usually and easily discomfited by throwing at him a ready succession of Scripture texts. The great, benign blue star was, of course, heaven, and the fierce and still greater red was hell; and much religious capital, and countless conversions, were made of such powerful religious accessories. The end in religion, as in all else for man in this world, Reed asserted, was righteousness and usefulness of life. And lastly came Reed’s forecast of the religious future, in which the Church of reasonableness and good common sense would have made a more effective development.
