To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. (Idea of Progress)

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.