Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it.