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No Matter What The Belief, If It Had Modestly Said, 'this Is Our Best Thought, Go On, Think Farther!' Then We Could Have Smoothly Outgrown Our Early Errors And Long Since Have Developed A Religion Such As Would Have Kept Pace With An Advancing World. But We Were Made To Believe And Not Allowed To Think. We Were Told To Obey, Rather Than To Experiment And Investigate.

As To Ethics, Unfortunately, We Are Still At Sea. We Never Did Have Any Popular Base For What Little Ethics We Knew, Except The Religious Theories, And Now That Our Faith Is Shaken In Those Theories We Cannot Account For Ethics At All. It Is No Wonder We Behave Badly, We Are Literally Ignorant Of The Laws Of Ethics, Which Is The Simplest Of Sciences, The Most Necessary, The Most Continuously Needed. The Childish Misconduct Of Our 'revolted Youth' Is Quite Equaled By That Of Older People, And Neither Young Nor Old Seem To Have Any Understanding Of The Reasons Why Conduct Is 'good' Or 'bad.

The Fact That Women In The Home Have Shut Themselves Away From The Thought And Life Of The World Has Done Much To Retard Progress.we Fill The World With The Children Of 20th Century A.d. Fathers And 20th Century B.c. Mothers.

Maternal Instinct, Merely As An Instinct, Is Unworthy Of Our Superstitious Reverence.

We Have Built Into The Constitution Of The Human Race The Habit And Desire Of Taking, As Divorced From Its Natural Precursor And Concomitant Of Making.