ABSTRACT
The great task of the manhood of the race being the discipline of the powers developed in its period of preparation, there is a natural connection between our ultimate condition and the complete series of its antecedents. The true religion has to look for its adherents mainly to the conservative party, but for its origin, it could take its rise nowhere but in the revolutionary camp; there its first germs found a due welcome as heralding the satisfaction of an imperious want—the termination of the revolutionary movement. The relativity that is its characteristic enables the final religion fully to recognize the advantages accruing to the race during the two periods of its childhood, from the fusion of the spiritual and temporal powers effected first by the priests, then by the military class. Between the family and the state, theocracy had introduced the caste, on the ground of its value as a combination of birth and calling.
