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PAPA, VICE OR SIN.
which she was so long groping in the dark.
To begin with, therefore, by drawing attention of our readers to the fact that every religion has a subjective and an objective side-we may designate them as 'religiosity' and 'religion'. And it is only in constant action and interaction of these two elements upon each other that the true nature of religion is fully revealed. We have also seen, that since the dawn of religious consciousness in mankind, a man has ever clothed his emotions, his thoughts, his aspirations and his sentiments in conceptions and ideas and that he has always expressed them in observances and practices. Out of the former, grows a religious doctrine, which, with the progress of civilisation and culture, is committed to writing in the shapelof sacred connons and creeds; these latter gradually assume the form of common religious observances. But for the maintainance of the doctrine and for preservation of the practice in accordance with it, he allies himself with kindred spirits, consciously or unconsciously, and feels constrained to act in
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