The Insidiousness Of Science Lies In Its

You Can Bear Anything If It Is Not Your Fault.

[science] Has Challenged The Super-eminence Of Religion; It Has Turned All Philosophy Out Of Doors Except That Which Clings To Its Skirts; It Has Thrown Contempt On All Learning That Does Not Depend On It; And It Has Bribed The Skeptics By Giving Us Immense Material Comforts.

The Very Notion Of Tabu Is One Of The Rightest Notions In The World. Better Any Old Tabu Than None, For A Man Cannot Be Said To Be"on The Side Of The Stars" At All, Unless He Makes Refusals.

One Of The Reasons, Surely, Why Women Have Been Credited With Less Perfect Veracity Than Men Is That The Burden Of Conventional Falsehood Falls Chiefly On Them.

... When You Make It A Moral Necessity For The Young To Dabble In All The Subjects That The Books On The Top Shelf Are Written About, You Kill Two Very Large Birds With One Stone: You Satisfy Precious Curiosities, And You Make Them Believe That They Know As Much About Life As People Who Really Know Something. If College Boys Are Solemnly Advised To Listen To Lectures On Prostitution, They Will Listen; And Who Is To Blame If Some Time, In A Less Moral Moment, They Profit By Their Information?