Man has been adjudged a social animal.

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Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.

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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

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