It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole ai…

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

Explanations exist: they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible and wrong.