Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1930
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Credit: Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prone to judge not only his own actions but those of his fellows; an era of criticism and self-righteous judgment set in, and continued through some terrible millennia of wrongdoing and backsliding, as narrated in the Old Testament, bringing untold misery in its train. This epoch of law and judgment is by no means extinct even now. In village communities it is repre¬ sented by an atmosphere of gossip and scandal and backbiting and harsh judg¬ ments. In towns it is different, but may be worse. Scandal and implied self-ap¬ proval are rampant. The pharisee still contemns the publican, the scribes still expose and condemn the sinners. Every fault is seized upon, relished, and pro¬ claimed abroad, by ninety and nine just persons who appear to need no repentance. First then the reign of human law and judgment. Then came a strange innova¬ tion, a new dispensation, replacing the old code of conduct by a spirit of human kind¬ ness, charity, service, and brotherly love. The new rule was “ Judge not.” “ Thy sins be forgiven thee.” Not to the righteous but to the sinners, not to the high-minded
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