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The Lure Of Happiness And The Fear Of Pain . . . Are The Two Forces Which Have Through Untold Millenniums Kept What We Usually Call Life From Destruction By The Ever Encroaching Outside Forces Of Destruction.

Do Not Feed Children On A Maudlin Sentimentalism Or Dogmatic Religion; Give Them Nature. Let Their Souls Drink In All That Is Pure And Sweet. Rear Them, If Possible, Amid Pleasant Surroundings ... Let Nature Teach Them The Lessons Of Good And Proper Living, Combined With An Abundance Of Well-balanced Nourishment. Those Children Will Grow To Be The Best Men And Women. Put The Best In Them By Contact With The Best Outside. They Will Absorb It As A Plant Absorbs The Sunshine And The Dew.

Do Not Feed Children On Maudlin Sentimentalism Or Dogmatic Religion; Give Them Nature... Do Not Terrify Them In Early Life With The Fear Of An After-world. Never Was A Child Made More Noble And Good By The Fear Of A Hell.

Of Course It Must, And Our Scientific Men Must Be Criticized Boldly. They Will Not Feel Comfortable When You And I Are Through With Them.

Nature Is Not Personal. She Is The Compound Of All These Processes Which Move Through The Universe To Effect The Results We Know As Life And Of All The Ordinances Which Govern That Universe And That Make Life Continuous. She Is No More The Hebrew's Jehovah Than She Is The Physicist's Force; She Is As Much Providence As She Is Electricity; She Is Not The Great Pattern Any More Than She Is The Blind Chance.