The Moral World Is As Little Exempt

Dwellers By The Sea Cannot Fail To Be Impressed By The Sight Of Its Ceaseless Ebb And Flow, And Are Apt, On The Principles Of That Rude Philosophy Of Sympathy And Resemblance... To Trace A Subtle Relation, A Secret Harmony, Between Its Tides And The Life Of Man... The Belief That Most Deaths Happen At Ebb Tide Is Said To Be Held Along The East Coast Of England From Northumberland To Kent.

The Slow, The Never Ending Approach To Truth Consists In Perpetually Forming And Testing Hypotheses, Accepting Those At Which At The Time Seem To Fit The Facts And Rejecting The Others.

Indeed The Influence Of Music On The Development Of Religion Is A Subject Which Would Repay A Sympathetic Study.

Some Of The Old Laws Of Israel Are Clearly Savage Taboos Of A Familiar Type Thinly Disguised As Commands Of The Deity.

By Religion, Then, I Understand A Propitiation Or Conciliation Of Powers Superior To Man Which Are Believed To Direct And Control The Course Of Nature And Of Human Life.