Plants Are As Responsive To Thought As

Do Not Feed Children On A Maudlin Sentimentalism Or Dogmatic Religion; Give Them Nature. Let Their Souls Drink In All That Is Pure And Sweet. Rear Them, If Possible, Amid Pleasant Surroundings ... Let Nature Teach Them The Lessons Of Good And Proper Living, Combined With An Abundance Of Well-balanced Nourishment. Those Children Will Grow To Be The Best Men And Women. Put The Best In Them By Contact With The Best Outside. They Will Absorb It As A Plant Absorbs The Sunshine And The Dew.

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.

As A Scientist, I Cannot Help Feeling That All Religions Are On A Tottering Foundation . . . I Am An Infidel Today. I Do Not Believe What Had Been Served To Me To Believe. I Am A Doubter, A Questioner, A Skeptic. When It Can Be Proved To Me That There Is Immortality, That There Is Resurrection Beyond The Gates Of Death, Then Will I Believe. Until Then, No.

All My Work Has Come About Through A Change In My Earlier Opinion Of Religion.

For Those Who Do Not Think, It Is Best At Least To Rearrange Their Prejudices Once In A While.