I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth

Elohim was, in logical terminology, the genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, and Jahveh were species. The Israelite believed Jahveh to be immeasurably superior to all other kinds of Elohim. The inscription on the Moabite stone shows that King Mesa held Chemosh to be, as unquestionably, the superior of Jahveh.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.