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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. Why I left the church - Image 14. 1912. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. September 19, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1023.

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. (1912). Why I left the church - Image 14. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1023

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955, Why I left the church - Image 14, 1912, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed September 19, 2020, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1023.

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Title	Why I left the church
Series Title	Pamphlets for the million; no. 1
Creator (LCNAF)	McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955
Contributor (LCNAF)	Rationalist Press Association
Publisher	Watts & Company
Place of Creation (TGN)	London
Date	1912
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Catholic ex-priests Personal narratives
Subject.Name (LCNAF)	McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	46 pages; 19 cm.
Original Item Location	BX4668.3.M33A3 1912
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304505~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 14
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_5792348_013.jpg
Transcript	1 WH Y I LEFT THE CHURCH centuries of discussion have naturally engendered, for only in these latter days has the discovery been made that conscience furnishes a valuable proof of the existence of God. There is a terrible irony, not wholly unfounded perhaps, in the passage of Heine where he describes Kant, after demolishing every other form of proof, reconstructing the Deity from the moral sense, to stem the tears of his aged and superstitious servant. In the analysis of conscience it is necessary to distinguish the moral sense as such, the perception of the moral character of actions, from the sense of obligation consequent upon the perception. Sometimes the argument rests upon the mere power of discriminating between moral and immoral acts, and it is urged that an idea of this specific character could not be evolved from non-moral ideas; more frequently, however, it is said that we recognise the necessity of a supreme legislator in the sense of obligation to fulfil the moral law, in the remorse that haunts its transgression, or the approval that smiles upon its fulfilment. Now, taking conscience in the first aspect, it is difficult to find in it anything that transcends ordinary psychological explanation. Take a volume of moral theology as it is elaborated in the Roman Church. First we find an analysis of conscience, which is purely naturalistic, and which is entirely at variance with the popular tendency to make of conscience an isolated, supernatural gift—an echo of the voice of God in man's heart; it is described as human reason pronouncing certain actions to be out of harmony with our rational nature, and prejudicial to the welfare of society.