Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.