The American Journal of Sociology

Mohammedanism, Romanism, and Protestantism contain systems of world-philosophy which have been deduced from religious dogmas. The world-philosophy is in each case removed by several steps of deduction from the religious postulates. Religion is tradition. It is a product of history, and it is embodied in ritual, institutions, officials, etc., which are historical. From time to time it is observes that the religious generalizations do not hold true; experience does not verify them. At last skepticism arises and new efforts of philosophy are required to re-establish the religious dogmas or to make new compromises. In modern times the thirst for reality has developed criticism and skepticism; everything is…