If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make them happy, fails to make them good, fails to make them wise, and has become as great an obstacle in the way of progress as the prior mythologies which it took the place of two thousand years ago.

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?