It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.
Ernestine Rosethere is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.
Ernestine RoseBut it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.
Ernestine RoseDo you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
Ernestine RoseWhatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.
Ernestine Rose