As A Rule, All Heroism Is Due

Morality Has Been Conceived Up To The Present In A Very Narrow Spirit, As Obedience To A Law, As Inner Struggle Between Opposite Laws. As For Me, I Declare That When I Do Good I Obey No One, I Fight No Battle And Win No Victory. The Cultivated Person Has Only To Follow The Delicious Incline Of His Or Her Inner Impulses. Be Beautiful And Then Do At Each Moment Whatever Your Heart May Inspire You To Do. This Is The Whole Of Morality.

The Prayer Of The Agnostic: "o God, If There Is A God, Save My Soul If I Have A Soul."

Human Cruelty Took The Form Of A Pact With The Deity. A Solemn Oath Was Made To Kill Everything, In Which People Forbade Themselves Any Display Of Reason Or Compassion. A City Or A Land Was Devoted To Destruction And It Was Believed An Insult To God If One Did Not Observe The Abominable Oath.

The Epic Disappeared Along With The Age Of Personal Heroism; There Can Be No Epic With Artillery.

The Simplest Schoolboy Is Now Familiar With Truths For Which Archimedes Would Have Sacrificed His Life.