Excerpt from The Economic Antichrist: A Study in Social Polity The term Nature will not be used in the limited sense of mere physical agencies, but rather as the sum-total of the physical, moral, and spiritual energies of the time being. It is thus an elastic term, since with the progress of life and of society these several factors of humanity have constantly grown in power and reach. While this content of Nature has been gradually filled up, a system - known as economic - has also been growing into power over human affairs. It is more than pertinent to consider how the Christian religion, which entered the world before the Economic development, fares in its modern setting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.