The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.