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No Philosophy, No Religion, Has Ever Brought So Glad A Message To The World As This Good News Of Atheism.

It Is Impossible For Anyone Who Studies The Life And Character Of The Great Prophet Of Arabia, Who Knows How He Taught And How He Lived, To Feel Anything But Reverence For That Mighty Prophet, O­ne Of The Great Messengers Of The Supreme. And Although In What I Put To You I Shall Say Many Things Which May Be Familiar To Many, Yet I Myself Feel Whenever I Re-read Them, A New Way Of Admiration, A New Sense Of Reverence For That Mighty Arabian Teacher.

If We Believe In A God At All, We Must Surely Ascribe To Him Perfection Of Wisdom And Perfection Of Goodness; We Are Then Forced To Conceive Of Him - However Strange It May Sound To Those Who Believe, Not Only Without Seeing But Also Without Thinking - As Without Will, Because He Must Always Necessarily Pursue The Course Which Is Wisest And Best.

Never Forget That Life Can Only Be Nobly Inspired And Rightly Lived If You Take It Bravely And Gallantly, As A Splendid Adventure In Which You Are Setting Out Into An Unknown Country, To Face Many A Danger, To Meet Many A Joy, To Find Many A Comrade, To Win And Lose Many A Battle.

If My Interlocutor Desires To Convince Me That Jupiter Has Inhabitants, And That His Description Of Them Is Accurate, It Is For Him To Bring Forward Evidence In Support Of His Contention. The Burden Of Proof Evidently Lies On Him; It Is Not For Me To Prove That No Such Beings Exist Before My Non-belief Is Justified, But For Him To Prove That They Do Exist Before My Belief Can Be Fairly Claimed. Similarly, It Is For The Affirmer Of God's Existence To Bring Evidence In Support Of His Affirmation; The Burden Of Proof Lies On Him.