...depraving influence. As it was, his aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius : he regarded...enemy of morality : first, by setting up fictitious excellence.', — belief in creeds, devotional feelings, and ceremonies, not. connected with the good...

...depraving influence. As it was, his aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius : he regarded...He' looked upon it as the greatest enemy of morality r first, by setting up fictitious excellences, — belief in creeds, devotional feelings, and ceremonies,...

...elder Mill, the younger writes, " His aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius. He regarded...moral evil. He looked upon it as the greatest enemy to morality ; first, by setting up fictitious excellences — belief in creeds, devotional feelings...

...looked upon religion " as the greatest enemy of morality, first by setting up fictitious excellences — belief in creeds, devotional feelings, and ceremonies...of human kind — and causing them to be accepted as substitutes for genuine virtues ; but above all, by radically vitiating the subject of morals."...

...looked upon religion " as the greatest enemy of morality, first by setting up fictitious excellences — belief in creeds? devotional feelings, and ceremonies...of human kind — and causing them to be accepted as substitutes for genuine virtues ; but above all, by radically vitiating the subject of morals."...

...should view with horror and disgust : which he should regard (I am quoting from the Autobiography) "with the feelings due not to a mere mental delusion, but to a great moral evil." Is this a belief which is likely "radically to vitiate the standard of morals" ? Do you recognise in...

...philosopher should view with horror and disgust: which he should regard (I am quoting from the Autobiography) "with the feelings due not to a mere mental delusion, but to a great moral evil." Is this a belief which is likely "radically to vitiate the standard of morals"? Do you recognise in...

..."rejected all that is called religious belief" (p. 73, Auto. p. 39"). "He regarded it with the feeling due not to .a mere mental delusion, but to a great...moral evil. He looked upon it as the greatest enemy to morality," and as " radically vitiating the standard of morals " (p. 73, Auto. p. 40), and "not...

...should view with horror and disgust : which he should regard (I am quoting from the Autobiography) "with the feelings due not to a mere mental delusion, but to a great moral evil." Is this a belief which is likely "radically to vitiate the standard of morals"? Do you recognise in...

...wisdom and righteousness. . . . His aversion to religion, in the sense usnally attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius: he regarded...upon it as the greatest enemy of morality: first, by selling up fictitious excellences — belief in creeds, devotional feelings, and ceremonies, not connected...