Nature Is Man's Religious Book, With Lessons

I Ask No Risen Dust To Teach Me Immortality; I Am Conscious Of Eternal Life.

The Bible Goes Equally To The Cottage Of The Peasant, And The Palace Of The King. - It Is Woven Into Literature, And Colors The Talk Of The Street. The Bark Of The Merchant Cannot Sail Without It; And No Ship Of War Goes To The Conflict But It Is There. It Enters Men's Closets; Directs Their Conduct, And Mingles In All The Grief And Cheerfulness Of Life.

Nature Is God's Old Testament.

First There Is The Democratic Idea: That All Men Are Endowed By Their Creator With Certain Natural Rights; That These Rights Are Alienable Only By The Possessor Thereof; That They Are Equal In Men; That Government Is To Organize These Natural, Unalienable And Equal Rights Into Institutions Designed For The Good Of The Governed, And Therefore Government Is To Be Of All The People, By All The People, And For All The People. Here Government Is Development, Not Exploitation.

Mankind Never Loses Any Good Thing, Physical, Intellectual, Or Moral, Till It Finds A Better, And Then The Loss Is A Gain. No Steps Backward Is The Rule Of Human History. What Is Gained By One Man Is Invested In All Men, And Is A Permanent Investment For All Time.