In Spite Of All The Yearnings Of

If You Lose The Power To Laugh, You Lose The Power To Think.

If Today You Can Take A Thing Like Evolution And Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Public School, Tomorrow You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Private Schools, And The Next Year You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It To The Hustings Or In The Church. At The Next Session You May Ban Books And Newspapers. Soon You May Set Catholic Against Protestant And Protestant Against Protestant, And Try To Foist Your Own Religion Upon The Minds Of Men.

It Is Not For The World To Judge, But To Crown Them All Alike. Each And All Lived Out Their Own Being, Did Their Work In Their Own Way, And Carried A Reluctant, Stupid Humanity To Greater Possibilities And Grander Heights.

In Spite Of All The Yearnings Of Men, No One Can Produce A Single Fact Or Reason To Support The Belief In God And In Personal Immortality.

Depressions May Bring People Closer To The Church But So Do Funerals.