Genius Is The Father Of A Heavenly

Let Others Laugh When You Sacrifice Desire To Duty, If They Will. You Have Time And Eternity To Rejoice In.

Manly Natural Religion - It Is Not Joining The Church; It Is Not To Believe In A Creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It Is Not To Keep Sunday Idle; To Attend Meetings; To Be Wet With Water; To Read The Bible; To Offer Prayers In Words; To Take Bread And Wine In The Meeting House; Love A Scape-goat Jesus, Or Any Other Theological Clap-trap.

Let Us Do Our Duty In Our Shop Or Our Kitchen, In The Market, The Street, The Office, The School, The Home, Just As Faithfully As If We Stood In The Front Rank Of Some Great Battle, And Knew That Victory For Mankind Depended On Our Bravery, Strength, And Skill. When We Do That, The Humblest Of Us Will Be Serving In That Great Army Which Achieves The Welfare Of The World.

The Miraculous Revelation Of The Old Testament And The New, The Miracles Of Famous Men, Jews, Gentiles, Or Christians, — Then Franklin Had No Religion At All; And It Would Be An Insult To Say That He Believed In The Popular Theology Of His Time, Or Of Ours, For I Find Not A Line From His Pen Indicating Any Such Belief.

For A Thousand Years No King In Christendom Has Shown Such Greatness Or Given So High A Type Of Manly Virtue.