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/ "Science is the enemy of fear and credulity. It invites investigation,        \
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| challenges the reason, stimulates inquiry, and welcomes the unbeliever. It    |
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| seeks to give food and shelter, and raiment, education and liberty to the     |
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| human race. It welcomes every fact and every truth. It has furnished a        |
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| foundation of morals, a philosophy for the guidance of man. From all books    |
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| it selects the good, and from all theories, the true. It seeks to civilize    |
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| the human race by the cultivation of the intellect and heart. It refines,     |
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| through art, music and the drama -- giving voice and expression to every      |
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| noble thought. The mysterious does not excite the feeling of worship, but     |
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| the ambition to understand. It does not pray -- it works. It does not answer  |
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| inquiry with the malicious cry of "blasphemy." Its feelings are not hurt by   |
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| contradiction, neither does it ask to be protected by law from the laughter   |
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| of heretics. It has taught man that he cannot walk beyond the horizon -- that |
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| the questions of origin and destiny cannot be answered -- they an infinite    |
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| personality cannot be comprehended by a finite being, and that the truth of   |
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| any system of religion based on the supernatural cannot by any possibility    |
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| be established -- such a religion not being within the domain of evidence.    |
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| And, above all, it teaches that all our duties are here -- that all our       |
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| obligations are to sentient beings; that intelligence, guided by kindness,    |
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| is the highest possible wisdom; and that "man believes not what he would,     |
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| but what he can."                                                             |
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| [Robert G. Ingersoll, Response to Wm. E. Gladstone on                         |
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| his letter "Regarding Col. Ingersoll on Christianity;                         |
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\ Some Remarks on his Reply to Dr. Field", 1888]                                /
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