To Have Common Glories In The Past,

The Virtue Of Man Is, In A Word, The Great Proof Of God.

None Of The Miracles With Which Ancient Histories Are Filled, Occurred Under Scientific Conditions. Observation Never Once Contradicted, Teaches Us That Miracles Occur Only In Periods And Countries In Which They Are Believed In And Before Persons Disposed To Believe In Them.

Religion Is Not A Popular Error; It Is A Great Instinctive Truth, Sensed By The People, Expressed By The People.

It Is Evident, Indeed, That Such A Doctrine, Taken By Itself In A Literal Manner, Had No Future. The World, In Continuing To Exist, Caused It To Crumble. One Generation Of Man At The Most Was The Limit Of Its Endurance. The Faith Of The First Christian Generation Is Intelligible, But The Faith Of The Second Generation Is No Longer So. After The Death Of John, Or Of The Last Survivor, Whoever He Might Be, Of The Group Which Had Seen The Master, The Word Of Jesus Was Convicted Of Falsehood.

Our Opinions Become Fixed At The Point Where We Stop Thinking.