The Highest Condition Of The Religious Sentiment

Any One Must See At A Glance That If Men And Women Marry Those Whom They Do Not Love, They Must Love Those Whom They Do Not Marry.

There Is No Theory Of A God, Of An Author Of Nature, Of An Origin Of The Universe, Which Is Not Utterly Repugnant To My Faculties. . .

I Certainly Never Believed, More Or Less, In The "essential Doctrines" Of Christianity, Which Represent God As The Predestinator Of Men To Sin And Perdition, And Christ As Their Rescuer From That Doom. I Never Was More Or Less Behuiled By The Trickery Of Language By Which The Perdition Of Man Is Made Out To Be Justice, And His Redemption To Be Mercy.

The Habit Of Dwelling On The Past, Has A Narrowing As Well As A Debilitating Influence. Behind Us, There Is A Small, - An Almost Insignificant Measure Of Time; Before Us, There Is An Eternity. It Is The Natural Tendency Of The Mind To Magnify The One, And To Diminish The Other.

If A Test Of Civilization Be Sought, None Can Be So Sure As The Condition Of That Half Of Society Over Which The Other Half Has Power.