Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 30: A Monthly Magazine; December, 1916 A noted student of theology said recently: In 1893, Dr. Carus was considered a very radical or even blasphemous writer, but today the Orthodox Church has caught up with him and he is no longer considered anti-christian. Beginning with a short sketch Of the work inaugurated at the Con gress Of Religions at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 1893, the essays cover the modern trend Of Higher Criticism and the gradual disappearance of dogmatic religion. The volume closes with a forecast of the religion Of the future. 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.