Cruel Persecutions And Intolerance Are Not Accidents,

If A Philosophic Theory Is Once Ruled Out Of Court, No One Can Tell When It Will Appear Again.

It Is Not Impossible To Think That The Minds Of Philosophers Sometimes Act Like Those Of Other Mortals, And That, Having Once Been Determined By Diverse Circumstances To Adopt Certain Views, They Then Look For And Naturally Find Reasons To Justify These Views.

If Religion Cannot Restrain Evil, It Cannot Claim Effective Power For Good.

Liberalism Is An Attitude Rather Than A Set Of Dogmas - An Attitude That Insists Upon Questioning All Plausible And Self-evident Propositions, Seeking Not To Reject Them But To Find Out What Evidence There Is To Support Them Rather Than Their Possible Alternatives.

To Be Sure, The Vast Majority Of People Who Are Untrained Can Accept The Results Of Science Only On Authority.