RELIGION, THEOLOGY AND MORALS (2 Volume Set) [Presentation Copy]

Scott, Harvey W.; Leslie M. Scott ed

Editore: The Riverside Press, 1917

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First Edition thus, a collection of the longtime Oregonian editor's public lectures and editorial articles compiled by the author's son, Leslie M. Scott. Printed for the author at the Riverside Press. Complete in two volumes, a presentation copy with presentation slip taped to the FPEP of volume 1. xxiv, 351; xvi, 403pp. 8vos, green cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering, top edges gilt, deckled fore and tail. Photo frontispiece to both volumes with guards intact. Vol. 1 fore edge with two abraded spots to the fore edge, otherwise both volumes FINE, exceedingly clean and sharp. A menagerie of progressive opinions from 'the most representative spokesman of the Pacific West.' 'Man's universal reverence for Deity is the one everlasting force for right living; and the devotional spirit is of utmost importance in bringing mankind to precepts of morality. The chiefest of these precepts, in Mr. Scott's view, is that of individual responsibility. This was the rule of his life; it was fortified in his nature by several generations of pioneer self-reliance on the frontier of the Middle West. In his writings on all subjects economic, religious, ethical, historical, literary he was always driving home the rules of individual responsibility and self-reliance. Creeds he held are valuable only as they stimulate active adherence to these basic precepts. These rules embody the moral consciousness of the human race; they are the product of tens of thousands of years of moral evolution; the age of the oldest theological creeds is as nothing by comparison. They declare that individual man can go forward and achieve only as a freewill agent, relying upon self and trusting not to neighbor nor society for prosperity or salvation. He can live in peace with other men and with the divine spirit only as he practices the rules of human moral consciousness. These moralities include parental re-sponsibility. They are not the exclusive property of any one religion nor of any one race. They are implanted in the conscience of every person, or should have been implanted there, by every parent. Churches promote morals, but do not monopolize them . Allusion has been made in this preface to occasional polemics between Mr. Scott and the pulpit. These polemics were not frequent and only in two or three cases did they become acrimonious. Clergymen, newly arrived at Portland, were frequently startled by the Editor's frank discourses, but they soon came to realize the true religious spirit of his writings, even if they sometimes feared the radical effect upon ecclesiastical tradition.' (From Leslie Scott's introduction).

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• Titolo: RELIGION, THEOLOGY AND MORALS (2 Volume Set) [Presentation Copy]
• Editore: The Riverside Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1917
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: FINE
• Firmato: Autografato dall'autore
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