If they exert it not for good…– Frances Wright
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things,
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike
Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know
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