And If We Must Educate Our Poets

Every Christian Church Has Tried To Impose A Code Of Morals Of Some Kind For Which It Has Claimed Divine Sanction. As These Codes Have Always Been Opposed To Those Of The Gospels A Loophole Has Been Left For Moral Progress Such As Hardly Exists In Other Religions.

I Will Jump Into The River To Save Two Brothers Or Eight Cousins.

There Can Be No Truce Between Science And Religion.

Religion Is Still Parasitic In The Interstices Of Our Knowledge Which Have Not Yet Been Filled. Like Bed-bugs In The Cracks Of Walls And Furniture, Miracles Lurk In The Lacunae Of Science. The Scientist Plasters Up These Cracks In Our Knowledge; The More Militant Rationalist Swats The Bugs In The Open. Both Have Their Proper Sphere And They Should Realize That They Are Allies.

We Must Learn Not To Take Traditional Morals Too Seriously. And It Is Just Because Even The Least Dogmatic Of Religions Tends To Associate Itself With Some Kind Of Unalterable Moral Tradition, That There Can Be No Truce Between Science And Religion.