People In This World Are

Religious Doctrines Do Not And Clearly Cannot Be Adopted As The Criminal Code Of A State.

Everyone Is The Heir To All That Has Gone Before; His Structure And Emotional Life Is Fixed, And No Two Children Of Nature Have The Same Heredity. I Believe Everyone Should And Must Live Out What Is In Him. So No Two Lives Can Be The Same.

I Never Wanted To See Anybody Die, But There Are A Few Obituary Notices I Have Read With Pleasure.

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.

Religion Is Based On The Insistence That Over And Above All Is A Purpose And A Guiding Hand That Is Beneficent And Kind, And Would Not Leave A Hair Unnumbered Or Let A Sparrow Fall Unnoticed To The Ground. Those Who Cherish Such Hallucinations Forget That The All-loving Power Is Inflicting Tuberculosis, Cancer, Famine, And Pestilence On The Trusting, Simple Sons Of Men.