Never Forget, Almost Every Case Has Been

Every Government On Earth Is The Personification Of Violence And Force, And Yet The Doctine Of Non-resistance Is As Old As Human Thought - Even More Than This, The Instinct Is As Old As Life Upon The Earth.

The Origin Of The Absurd Idea Of Immortal Life Is Easy To Discover; It Is Kept Alive By Hope And Fear, By Childish Faith, And By Cowardice.

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.

None Meet Life Honestly And Few Heroically.

The Fear Of God Is Not The Beginning Of Wisdom. The Fear Of God Is The Death Of Wisdom. Skepticism And Doubt Lead To Study And Investigation, And Investigation Is The Beginning Of Wisdom.