I Feel As I Always Have, That

I Am An Agnostic; I Do Not Pretend To Know What Many Ignorant Men Are Sure Of.

There Are Two Things That Kill A Genius - A Fatal Disease And Contentment.

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.

Religion Is Based On The Insistence That Over And Above All Is A Purpose And A Guiding Hand That Is Beneficent And Kind, And Would Not Leave A Hair Unnumbered Or Let A Sparrow Fall Unnoticed To The Ground. Those Who Cherish Such Hallucinations Forget That The All-loving Power Is Inflicting Tuberculosis, Cancer, Famine, And Pestilence On The Trusting, Simple Sons Of Men.

It May Never Come, But I Fancy Than No Man Who Has Sympathy For The Human Race Does Not Wish That Sometime Those Who Labor Should Have The Whole Product Of Their Toil. Probably It Will Never Come, But I Wish That The Time Might Come When Men Who Work In The Industries Would Own The Industries.