Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.