For nearly two thousand years now the Gospel has proved a failure.

There has been no redemption; the sufferings of mankind are every whit as great and unjust as they were when Jesus came.

And thus the Gospel is now but an abolished code, from which society can only draw things that are troublous and hurtful.

Men must free themselves from it." This was his final conviction.

How strange the idea, thought he, of choosing as the world's social legislator one who lived, as Jesus lived, amidst a social system absolutely different from that of nowadays.