Excerpt from Religion in a College: What Place It Should Have, Being an Examination of President Eliot's Paper, Read Before the Nineteenth Century Club, in New York, Feb; 3, 1886 It is because I feel that we have come to an important cri sis, and that fathers and mothers should know it, thati have agreed to engage in this discussion; disputation, except to defend great principles, being uncongenial to my nature. In taking my side I must have certain things presup posed, otherwise I have nothing to argue from or upon. I presume that I am addressing persons who believe in relig ion, who believe in God, who believe in a moral law, that we have broken that law, that the soul is immortal, and that there is to be a judgment day. I may assume that I am not addressing a company of agnostics who believe in things that can be seen, in meat and money, but not in things that are spiritual and divine. If I had to argue before such an audience I would have to begin with trying to convince them that religion is a reality. If there be any here who can look abroad on these wondrous works in earth and hea ven and discover no design in them, who believe themselves to be upper brutes, and do not acknowledge that they have a soul distinct from the body, or that we have to give an ao count of the deeds done in the body, whether they have been good or evil, it is of no use for me to address myself to such, for they are committed against me; they cannot wish to have religion in our colleges, for they do not wish it for themselves. 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.