It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. . . I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.