I Am Not Afraid Of Any God

Probably The Undertaker Thinks Less Of Death Than Almost Any Other Man. He Is So Accustomed To It That His Mind Must Involuntarily Turn From Its Horror To A Contemplation Of How Much He Makes Out Of The Burial.

If Today You Can Take A Thing Like Evolution And Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Public School, Tomorrow You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It In The Private Schools, And The Next Year You Can Make It A Crime To Teach It To The Hustings Or In The Church. At The Next Session You May Ban Books And Newspapers. Soon You May Set Catholic Against Protestant And Protestant Against Protestant, And Try To Foist Your Own Religion Upon The Minds Of Men.

One Believes In The Truthfulness Of A Man Because Of His Long Experience With The Man, And Because The Man Has Always Told A Consistent Story. But No Man Has Told So Consistent A Story As Nature.

Many Writers Claim That Nearly All Crime Is Caused By Economic Conditions, Or In Other Words That Poverty Is Practically The Whole Cause Of Crime. Endless Statistics Have Been Gathered On This Subject Which Seem To Show Conclusively That Property Crimes Are Largely The Result Of The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth. But Crime Of Any Class Cannot Be Safely Ascribed To A Single Cause. Life Is Too Complex, Heredity Is Too Variant And Imperfect, Too Many Separate Things Contribute To Human Behavior, To Make It Possible To Trace All Actions To A Single Cause.

Just Think Of The Tragedy Of Teaching Children Not To Doubt.