Life Is A Verb, Not A Noun.

It Cannot Be Too Strongly Asserted That The Insistence On Blind, Unreasoning Faith Is Due Mainly To The Maintenance Of A Subject-matter Upon Which There Was No Knowledge, Namely The 'other World'; And That This Basis Was Assumed Because Of Early Man's Preoccupation With Death. It Is, Unfortunately, Quite Possible To Believe A Thing Which Is Contradicted By Facts, Especially If The Facts Are Not Generally Known; But If The Whole Position On Which We Rested Our Religions Had Been Visibly Opposed By What We Did Know, Even The Unthinking Masses Would, In Time, Have Noticed It.

We All Need One Another; Much And Often. Just As Every Human Creature Needs A Place To Be Alone In, A Sacred, Private "home" Of His Own, So All Human Creatures Need A Place To Be Together In, From The Two Who Can Show Each Other Their Souls Uninterruptedly, To The Largest Throng That Can Throb And Stir In Unison.

(i Would Not Say It To A Living Soul, Of Course, But This Is Dead Paper And A Great Relief To My Mind

The Stony-minded Orthodox Were Right In Fearing The First Movement Of New Knowledge And Free Thought. It Has Gone On, And Will Go On, Irresistibly, Until Some Day We Shall Have No Respect For An Alleged "truth" Which Cannot Stand The Full Blaze Of Knowledge, The Full Force Of Active Thought.

The One Predominant Duty Is To Find One's Work And Do It.