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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 1
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Among the regular or occasional contributors are: Felix Adler, Francis E. Abbot, John Albee, John W. Chadwick, Mrs. E. D. Cheney, Rowland Connor, George W. Cooke, George Jacob Holyoake (England), Frederick May Holland, C. D. B. Mills, Minot J. Savage, William H. Spencer, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Benjamin F. Underwood, and Mrs. Sara A. Underwood.
- To increase general intelligence with respect to religion;
- To foster a nobler spirit and quicken a higher purpose, both in society and in the individual;
- To substitute knowledge for ignorance, right for wrong, truth for superetition, freedom for slavery, character for creed, catholicity for bigotry, love for hate, humanitarianism for sectarianism, devotion to universal ends for absorption in selfish schemes;
- In brief, to hasten the day when Free Religion shall take the place of dogmatism and ecclesiasticism throughout the world, and when the welfare of humanity here and now shall be the aim of all private and public activities.
It may be further stated that, as voice of the Free Religious Association, the Free Religious Index will endeavor fairly to represent all the phases of the movement, in all their breadth, for which that Association stands. Whatever pertains to its threefold object—"the practical interests of pure religion, the increase of fellowship in the spirit, and the encouragement of the scientific study of man's religious nature and history"—will here find a fitting place. The relations of Religion to Modern Science and to Social Science and Philanthropy, the relations of Universal Religion to the Special Religions and the relations of Religion to the State, will receive particular attention. Book Notices and Correspondence will be secured from competent writers. As a