Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.
Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th… - Joseph Mccabe
Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th…
- Joseph Mccabe
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only th… - Joseph Mccabe
Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only th…
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause. - Joseph Mccabe
If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power. - Joseph Mccabe
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism. - Joseph Mccabe
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time… - Joseph Mccabe
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time…
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress. - Joseph Mccabe
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. - Joseph Mccabe
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a par… - Joseph Mccabe
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a par…
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