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A UNIVERSAL RELIGION.

DAVID SWING.

The general unity of the mind indicates a final similarity
of conclusion as to those questions which concern man. Con-
jecture leads towards diversity and discord. When all the
ancients relied upon conjecture for their opinions of the heav~
enly bodies, the sun was ten miles distant, or a million miles
distant; it was small or great, it was dead or alive, old or
young, as fancy wished. With the progress of those instru-
ments which could find the facts, a little more of harmony set
in and now the millions who once differed, all agree as to the
fact that the sun is nearly a million of miles in diameter, and
is more than ninety millions of miles distant from our globe.
This vanishing of discordant opinions illustrates the power of
reason to bring about a general resemblance of conclusion, for
as there is one truth of the sun, so there must be some one
truth of politics, some one truth of social condition, and some
one truth of religion.

A universal religion can come more easily than a universal
language, because in language humanity must become one in
minute details, while in religion, unity may be perfect when
all minds agree in great cardinal ideas. Indeed, a universal
religion will come as rapidly as civilization appears, because
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the European and American mind is rapidly tending toward
one definition of man, is assigning him equality of right and
unity of physical nature, is passing by as insignificant the
facts of color, height and weight, so the ‘same mind
resolves the idea of a Creator into that of one God, because
two causes must not be thought of when one will suffice. The
fact of an advancing civilization implies thus a coming uni-
versal religion. What Socrates saw as to the oneness of God,
Newton was compelled to affirm, because there is only one
logic for all the philosophers of the entire human family.
What civilization does is to carry forward all those millions
who in thought stand between Socrates and Newton, that all
may be one. As man rises, many details become insignificant.

Where civilization is now highest there is already only one

i religion. The reason which compels many faces which differ

in features and color to meet in one humanity compels many
names of sects to meet in only one substantial religious belief.
Instead of being an idle dream, a universal religion is already
a reality unless under universal we include the savage tribes as
well as the civilized races. That is to say, there are millions of
persons who have found the religion of the human race just as
they have found the equality of men. It remains for what is called
education to increase the number of these harmonious millions.

When the Hindoo Mozoomdar began to study deeply the
Christian religion, he discovered that it was also his own.
Dean Stanley and Canon Farrar reciprocated the intellectual
favor and found that they were the religious brothers of
Mozoomdar. Max Muller joined this brotherhood and con-
fessed that one chain of religion binds all hearts. Reason is
the great winnowing mill of the earth. It blows steadily and
powerfully, and the one result is the separation of the wheat

. from the chaff. The future cannot avoid the happy destiny of

pOSsessing more of wheat and less of chaff. The chaff cannot
came back to mingle again with the wheat, for, as Christ said,
it passes into an unrelenting fire. The mind can move from
polythe'ism to the unity of deism, but it can never retrace its
steps. The sun can never again be blown south in winter and
north in summer, by certain trade winds. Man can go forward
from Herodotus, but he cannot turn and go back to the dear
old historian and fabricator. Thus the chaff blown from relig—
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It must be that religion is composed of permanent ele-
ments. As water is always composed of the same two great
component parts, and must not be conceived of as liable to any
new form of composition, so religion possesses such permanent
elements, as faith, worship, repentance, charity and hope.
Whatever may be‘these elements, they will slowly reveal them-
selves to studious years, and once found they will remain per-
manent. Therefore, a universal religion is as necessary as a
universal chemistry; but with this difference of situation——
religion lies in a more puzzling entanglement, with man’s hab-
its, teachings and prejudices. The Christians are all willing
for water to be composed of oxygen and hydrogen, but they
are not all willng for religion to be composed of faith, wor-
ship and Virtue. Each sect asks for some additional element.

Time and thought will at last reach a final analysis of
piety, and as astronomy is one for China, England and Amer-
ica, so religion will be one and the same sentiment in all
lands. It must be remembered that the religion along the
Congo river, among the black cannibals, is no more false
than their politics and their chemistry. The African priest is
no deeper in error than the African astronomer. The mental
progress which shall harmonize the African chemist with the
English chemist, and compel the statesman of Central Africa
to agree with Lincoln and Castelar, shall modify the worship
and doctrines of negro piety until they shall differ in nothing
from the worship delineated by a Jesus Christ, or by the

‘ human leaders such as Dean Stanley, Farrar, and Freeman

Clark.

A universal religion need not be of one form all over the
world. It will consist more in the broad toleration which
common sense brings than in identity of detail. The English
language is one and the same speech in London and San
Francisco, although the word clerk is not pronounced in the
same manner in both cities. Language is too vast a body to
be affected by a long or a short vowel. The fall of an apple
does not affect the earth’s motion in its orbit. Thus the
human mind is just about to become so broad and tolerant
that it will not permit such a vast fact as religion to be
marred in the least by the presence or absence of some detail.

Two forces are at work upon a universal religion. The one
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the other is that education which confesses some variations to
be small and unworthy to be estimated as a discord.

It is not possible to state What place Jesus Christ will
occupy in the religion of the far future. Minds will probably
be left free to estimate the Nazarene as each mind likes, only
the facts will make it necessary for all minds to confess him to
be the pre-eminent leader in this kingdom of belief and wor—
ship. As holy men now differ in their opinions of Christ
without differing in their Christianity, so the Son of Man can
be the earthly symbol of piety without doing violence to the
minds not of to—day indeed, but those of the distant to-morrow.
The greatest religious personage in all history cannot but act
an important part in the ultimate faith of our race, unless
some greater one shall yet come to throw into eclipse the
wonderful Judean. But it will be difficult for the future to
produce a religious character that shall make the splendor of
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States were foreign to each other, and the citizens of each, aliens
in all the rest, without rights, privileges or immunities, save
such as might be accorded by international comity.

By the early Roman law, it is said that an alien ”had no
right that the citizen was bound to respect." But this harsh

rule was afterward modified by a protection given by a citizen
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as patron, to an alien as his client; and by treaties under which
foreigners were accorded certain rights and privileges,'and soon
a body of private international law, called the fur Gentz’um,
began to take its place beside the civil law, and to afford a
basis of what is termed natural justice, for the determination
of controversies between citizens and aliens. This universal
jurisprudence of mankind has advanced from age to age, until
it now commands the approval of the enlightened world, and
affords a rational basis of intercourse between the peoples of
different countries. In return for the protection given to an
alien, he-owes a ready and complete obedience to all the laws
for the preservation of the peace and good order of society,
and must conduct himself in conformity to the general law and
public policy of the country whose privileges he enjoys.
The general rule is that an alien may acquire and hold per-
sonal property, and have the aid of the judicial tribunals for
its recovery and protection, but that he cannot acquire and
hold an indefeasible title to land, without an enabling act,
authorizing him to do so.

An alien, 1antu sojourning or domiciled in aforeign
country is entitled to the aid of his own government for his
protection against any invasion of his just rights and privi—
leges, by or under the sanction of the foreign government.

But while many of the rights and privileges of citizens in
foreign lands have finally come to be well understood and
established, many others are still obscure on the subject of
controversy, as diplomatic discussion abundantly shows.* At
the same time there has been an enormous increase of travel
and commerce throughout the world, accompanied by an ever-
growing demand for better facilities and more adequate
security to visiting or trading strangers. More swiftly

, than any of us can well realize, the whole world is becoming ‘

in fact one great country, needing new laws for the proper
protection of its vast and varied people.

Let us then inquire whether the time has not fully come
for an extension of the principle of the guaranty of equal
privileges and immunities to the citizens of all the states of
the American Union, to the citizens of all the enlightened
countries of the world, so far as travel, residence and com-
merce are concerned; and for a distinct statement of those

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privileges and immunities in a Code of International Inter—
course to be prepared by representatives of the participating
countries, and adopted by treaty by the respective governments?
Such a code is necessary both for the information of those con-
cerned, and to avoid disputes among the nations in regard to
the rights and privileges accorded.

There are two distinct aspects of the case for which provision
should be made. We have thus far had in view only the
first, namely, the admission of aliens to certain rights and
privileges of citizens. Let us now turn to the second, which
is the recognition and protection of certain rights and privi-
leges which the alien enjoys in his own country under its
laws and public policy, and which he desires to take with
him, wherever he may journey throughout the world. It is
obvious that no nation will protect an alien in the enjoyment
of any privilege that would disturb the peace and good order
of its own society. But there is no good reason why any gov—
ernment should not accord to the citizen or subject of any for—
eign power with which it is at peace, the privilege of living
according to the customs and laws of his own country, so far
as he can do so Without any such disturbance; and of dealing
with his own countrymen according to the laws that govern
them at home. Indeed, one of the charms of international
intercourse is the preservation by Visitors from other countries
of their national characteristics, and the harmonizing of differ-
ent systems of culture and progress, in the relations established
between natives and sojourning foreigners. But all such visit-
ors should be distinctly informed, by a clear and explicit code
of rules, of the privileges accorded and those denied to them.

A citizen who desires to be assured of the protection of
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