There Is A Court To Which I

Idle And Meaningless ... A Form Less Solemn To Me Than The Affirmation I Would Have Reverently Made.

Is It Not Gain To Have Diminished The Faith That It Was The Duty Of The Wretched And The Miserable To Be Content With The Lot In Life Which Providence Had Awarded Them?

Atheists Would Teach Men To Be Moral Now, Not Because God Offers As An Inducement Reward By And By, But Because In The Virtuous Act Itself Immediate Good Is Insured To The Doer And The Circle Surrounding Him.

Is Poverty Of Spirit The Chief Amongst Virtues, That Jesus Gives It Prime Place In His Teachings? Is It Even A Virtue At All? Surely Not. Manliness Of Spirit, Honesty Of Spirit, Fullness Of Rightful Purpose, These Are Virtues; Poverty Of Spirit Is A Crime.

Atheist, Without God, I Look To Humankind For Sympathy, For Love, For Hope, For Effort, For Aid.