The Unitarian Review Author:Joseph Henry Allen Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: UNITARIAN REVIEW Vol. XXVII. FEBRUARY, 1887. No. 2 EDITORIAL. The Unitabian Review aims, first of all, to be a mouthpiece of the more deliberate th... more »ought of the body whose name it bears, especially of that thought which flows in the lines of its religious activity and life. It is not, primarily, a journal of speculative thought, or of theological criticism and erudition ; still less is it a journal of general literature, historic investigation, or popularized science. All these topics have their place, and will have their due share of attention; but they are necessarily subordinate to the chief end had in view. This qualification it is obliged to make at the outset, in order to stand fair with its readers or contributors. So far as may be, it would fill rather the office of a guide to the working forces of the body, and an interpreter of the conditions under which the work has to be done. It claims this for its proper field, and will try to occupy that first, before attempting tasks that can be done more fitly by other hands. It addresses, in especial, those who have an interest, however near or however remote, in that one field. While it retains its present name, it must, first of all, be loyal to what the name signifies and stands for. There may be many minds; there must be but one will. A religious journal ceases to be religious, when it is no longer guided by one main purpose and dominated by a specific faith. In the next place, it aims to represent the entire field of thought and life covered by that name, and not to be the organ of any one group, party, or fragment among those to whom the work of the body naturally falls. It will not recognize, as matter of controversy, any differences of opinion, judgment, or method, such as must always be found where there ...« less