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While It Is True That An Inherently Free And Scrupulous Person May Be Destroyed, Such An Individual Can Never Be Enslaved Or Used As A Blind Tool.

One Has A Feeling That One Has A Kind Of Home In This Timeless Community Of Human Beings That Strive For Truth. ... I Have Always Believed That Jesus Meant By The Kingdom Of God The Small Group Scattered All Through Time Of Intellectually And Ethically Valuable People.

The Idea Of Achieving Security Through National Armament Is, At The Present State Of Military Technique, A Disastrous Illusion.

In Their Struggle For The Ethical Good, Teachers Of Religion Must Have The Stature To Give Up The Doctrine Of A Personal God, That Is, Give Up That Source Of Fear And Hope Which In The Past Placed Such Vast Power In The Hands Of Priests. In Their Labors They Will Have To Avail Themselves Of Those Forces Which Are Capable Of Cultivating The Good, The True, And The Beautiful In Humanity Itself. This Is, To Be Sure, A More Difficult But An Incomparably More Worthy Task.

Scarcely Anyone Who Comprehends This Theory Can Escape Its Magic.