Children Are The Greatest Sufferers From Outgrown

I Have Learned From Nature That Dependence On Unnatural Beliefs Weakens Us In The Struggle And Shortens Our Breath For The Race.

Every Child Should Have Mud Pies, Grasshoppers, Water Bugs, Tadpoles, Frogs, Mud Turtles, Elderberries, Wild Strawberries, Acorns, Chestnuts, Trees To Climb. Brooks To Wade, Water Lilies, Woodchucks, Bats, Bees, Butterflies, Various Animals To Pet, Hayfields, Pine-cones, Rocks To Roll, Sand, Snakes, Huckleberries And Hornets; And Any Child Who Has Been Deprived Of These Has Been Deprived Of The Best Part Of Education.

The Idea That A Good God Would Send People To A Burning Hell Is Utterly Damnable To Me - The Raving Of Insanity, Superstition Gone To Seed! I Want No Part Of Such A God.

Let Us Read The Bible Without The Ill-fitting Colored Spectacles Of Theology, Just As We Read Other Books, Using Our Own Judgment And Reason, Listening To The Voice Within, Not To The Noisy Babel Without. Most Of Us Possess Discriminating Reasoning Powers. Can We Use Them Or Must We Be Fed By Others Like Babes?

Those Who Would Legislate Against The Teaching Of Evolution Should Also Legislate Against Gravity, Electricity And The Unreasonable Velocity Of Light, And Also, Should Introduce A Clause To Prevent The Use Of The Telescope, The Microscope And The Spectroscope Or Any Other Instrument Of Precision Which May In The Future Be Invented, Constructed Or Used For The Discovery Of Truth.