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Excerpt from Ecce Spiritus: A Statement of the Spiritual Principle of Jesus as the Law of Life TO one who watches the revolutions of religious thought, without any faith in human progress or abil ity to see beneath the shifting surface an underlying principle ever tending toward harmony and positive ness of result, there must be much of discourage ment. It has been the sad duty of modern times not to inaugurate, - for the tendency has long been latent, - but to carry out to full effect the battle against time-honored comforts and sacred associations, a duty from the sadness of which no one has been able wholly to escape. Those who would not fight must perforce witness the battle, and share, if only inciden tally, in its sorrow. Even to stand aloof in such age is to be disturbed and unsettled by the din of intellectual warfare, and choked and blinded with the smoke of controversy; while so-called liberalism, beyond its own inner struggle and loss, has suffered under the added necessity of bringing pain to others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.