Discourses on the Nature of Religion: And on Commerce and Business; With Some Occasional Discourses

Excerpt from Discourses on the Nature of Religion: And on Commerce and Business; With Some Occasional Discourses

The interests of the mind and heart, spiritual interests, in other words - the interests involved in religion, are real and supreme. Neglected, disregarded, ridiculed, ruined as they may be; ruined as they may be in mere folly, in mere scorn; they are still real and supreme. Notwithstanding all appearances, delusions, fashions and opinions to the contrary, this is true, and will be true forever. All essential interests centre ultimately in the soul; all that do not centre there, are circumstantial, transitory, evanescent; they belong to things that perish.

This is what I have endeavoured to show in a previous discourse, and for this purpose I have appealed in the first place, to Society.

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