3.

To recognize, not as a matter of policy merely, but as a matter of fact, the sincerity of the clergy and the good intentions of Christians generally....

4.

To seek the maxims of duty in the relations of man to society and nature, and, as the _Christian Spectator_ did us the honor to admit, 'to preach nature and science, morality and art: nature, the only subject of knowledge; science, the providence of life; morality, the harmony of action; art, the culture of the individual and of society.'" "We therefore resolved to choose a new name (Secularism), which should express the _practical and moral_ element always concealed in the word Atheism....

Secularism seeks the personal Law of duty, the Sphere of duty, and the Power by which duty may work independently.