No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.