Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.