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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. Why I left the church - Image 16. 1912. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. September 22, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1025.

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955. (1912). Why I left the church - Image 16. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1025

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McCabe, Joseph, 1867-1955, Why I left the church - Image 16, 1912, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed September 22, 2020, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1058/show/1025.

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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 16
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_5792348_015.jpg
Transcript	14. WHY I LEFT THE CHURCH 'cent fc * covers the whole ground of the moral code, .nd it is all we have to explain in conscience. We need no higher legislator to classify our actions, and to impose upon us a sense of obligation to abstain from immorality. Perhaps the most popular argument is drawn from the beauty and order and apparent purpose in the universe. In spite of the profound modification of the problem which evolution has effected, this remains the most familiar of all the proofs of the existence of God. Catholic philosophers are, indeed, abandoning it as a distinct proof, but preachers (who are rarely thinkers) still linger affectionately over the venerable argument, and poets and novelists with a taste for apologetics are ever putting our materialism to shame by their appeals to the glorious procession of worlds across the darkened stage of the heavens, to the thrilling panorama of earthly scenery, to the monuments of constructive wisdom in the organic worlds. But when we consign rhetoric and sentiment to their legitimate provinces, we soon realise that all we can reasonably hope to discover are the efficient causes, not the final causes of the universe. It is only by postulating intelligence in the "First Cause" (after postulat.ng the First Cause itself) that we can speak ot a purpose or finality in the world-process. For when men speak of the necessity of a "controlling mind, a "des.gner and ruler," they are only substi- tut.ng mystery for mystery at the best. How can we conceive matter to act in obedience to a lawgiver? is easy and impressive to speak of the issue of an omn.potent Fiat, and the obedient movement and