The Spectacle [of American Politics] Resembles That

For After All Man Knows Mighty Little, And May Some Day Learn Enough Of His Own Ignorance To Fall Down Again And Pray. Not That Icare. Only, If Such Is God's Will, And Fate And Evolution--let There Be God!

History Is Only A Catalogue Of The Forgotten.

Some Day Science May Have The Existence Of Mankind In Its Power, And The Human Race Commit Suicide, By Blowing Up The World.

It Is Impossible To Underrate Human Intelligence - Beginning With One's Own.

The Idea That Any Personal Deity Could Find Pleasure Or Profit In Torturing A Poor Woman, By Accident, With A Fiendish Cruelty Known To Man Only In Perverted And Insane Temperaments, Could Not Be Held For A Moment. For Pure Blasphemy, It Made Pure Atheism A Comfort.