Never has the skeptic enjoyed the opportunity he is enjoying to-day. To begin with, never has it been so safe to be a skeptic. In the old days the church had as short a way with skeptics as Defoe centuries later humorously suggested should be taken with dissenters. But to-day all that has been changed, and the churches themselves are filled with skeptics airing their own views so freely as to remind their listeners of that famous knight of whom it is said:
Whatever skeptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
In this way, within the last few months, half the dogmas of orthodoxy have been challenged, and challenged by men holding leading positions in churches which have for centuries professed these very dogmas. Nor is there anything very surprising in all this. One of the main results of the great war has been to burst the dams of convention of every sort. To-day, therefore, the world is full of skeptics, putting forward their whys, and the pulpits do not seem to contain many Hudibrases ready with their wherefores.
