Can You Blame Me If I Am

Man Is An Evasive Beast, Given To Cultivating Strange Notions About Himself. He Is Humiliated By His Simian Ancestry, And Tries To Deny His Animal Nature, To Persuade Himself That He Is Not Limited By Its Weaknesses Nor Concerned In Its Fate. And This Impulse May Be Harmless, When It Is Genuine. But What Are We To Say When We See The Formulas Of Heroic Self-deception Made Use Of By Unheroic Self-indulgence?

You Don't Have To Be Satisfied With America As You Find It. You Can Change It. I Didn't Like The Way I Found America Some Sixty Years Ago, And I've Been Trying To Change It Ever Since.

The Supreme Crime Of The Church To-day Is That Everywhere And In All Its Operations And Influences It Is On The Side Of Sloth Of Mind; That It Banishes Brains, It Sanctifies Stupidity, It Canonizes Incompetence.

In The Twilight, It Was A Vision Of Power.

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.