The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.