Cie Volume 25 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ... in the declaration of independence, and as declared by Washington as a self-evident truth. To every man. moreover, the privilege of determining how his happiness best may be secured is as well determined as the right to pursue it, limited only by its relation and privileges to the rights of others. The present day religionists and reformers arc ready to "burn at the stake" all those who disagree with their fanaticism. The Protestants are ready to fly at the throats of the Roman Catholics and the latter ready to murder the former, and the fanatical, hypocritical prohibitionist ready to persecute the best of American citizenship. Collier's Weekly, some months ago reported a very distinguished man speaking to a large intelligent audience as saying "That when a man assumes the role of a religionist it is a sure sign of his decadence." You sec this evil prohibitionist in the role of a reformer injecting itself into politics; and all students of political economics know that no more disastrous thing could happen to State or national politics than the injecting of religious issues into political discussions. "Our whole system of society is rotten from top to bottom, and the social environment is the worst the world has even seen," says our greatest living scientist, co-discoverer with Chas. Darwin of the "Theory of Evolution," Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, in his "Social Environment and Moral Progress." Borrowing the last stanza in the Rev. Dr. Durant's (of Pratt City) "defiant" to Father Coyle, "I now say what I think." "I speak truth, not so much as I.would, but as I dare; and dare a little more as I grow older." I read in "The Fra" that Thomas Jefferson' once said: "Th...