What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.