Its inventions are for the many, not for the few.

Its science is not hoarded, but diffused.

It elevates the masses, who everywhere else have been trampled down.

The friend of the people, it tends to free schools, a free press, a free government, the abolition of slavery, war, vice, and the melioration of society.

We cannot, indeed, here _prove_ that Christianity is the cause of these features peculiar to modern life; but we find it everywhere associated with them, and so we can say that it only, of all the religions of mankind, has been capable of accompanying man in his progress from evil to good, from good to better.
We have merely suggested some of the results to which the study of Comparative Theology may lead us.