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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. Why I left the church - Image 15. 1912. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. September 28, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1024.

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. (1912). Why I left the church - Image 15. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1024

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955, Why I left the church - Image 15, 1912, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed September 28, 2020, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1024.

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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 15
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_5792348_014.jpg
Transcript	WHY I LEFT THE CHURCH 25 Sin or immorality is analysed in like fashion. *v>« act is forbidden because it is immoral; it is not iur moral because God forbids it. To be sinful an action must either be (1) directly opposed to one or other prerogative of the Deity (and these sins stand or fall with belief in God), or (2) prejudicial to society, or (3) injurious to our neighbour. The same principle is acted upon throughout the whole complex system of morals, and yet we have Catholic writers, like Dr. Mivart, contending that moral distinctions cannot be explained by evolution; while it is attempted to establish a legislator other than humanity for a moral code which is exclusively concerned with the interests of humanity. Newman, who declared he would be an Atheist but for the argument from conscience, rests his inference upon the second aspect of conscience— the feeling of constraint and the remorse that follows sin. But surely, if the preceding analysis of the moral law (taken from Roman theology) is correct, it has in itself a sufficient basis and sanction, and our natural impulse to observe it is easily understood. On the one hand, we have the inherited experience of innumerable ancestors and the deeply- impressed associations of our early training pointing out certain lines of conduct as moral; on the other hand, we have the consciousness of our connection with a society from which our life derives half its happiness, the knowledge that each immoral act and habit tends to undermine a state of society which it is our supreme interest to support and develop. A mind withdrawn from the influence of religion feels no more than this; but