Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.