Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life - to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this - a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.