The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

I Fall upon the thorns of life.

Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.