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Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 June 1884, Page 12

A correspondent of the Boston Index elucidates the tenets of "Free Religion" in the following terms : In the article of F. M. Holland, in a late Index, the formula of the Free Religionists is set forth. No scepticism has, bethinks, spoken of these four principles: i. The positive existence of a transcendent Reality, wheh reveals itself in conscience, but is above all definition; 2. Our continual dependence on this Reality, in which we live and move and have our being ; 3. The certainty that it acts through fixed and general laws ; and, 4. Some sort of connection between this action and the tendency which leads us to do right. Now, when we come to dwell in this Reality, we become philosophers, and have a real existence as such. And a philosopher is not an automaton; he is a Realityreliant man in phenomenal things. In fact, a man is as he lives, or dwells ; for the quality of a substance must be in strict relation to the substance itself.