Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.