Nothing can be created out of nothing.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.