A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we have class and sectarian schools th...e parties supporting them will not give their fullest aid toward building up the public school system. If all of the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money and energies on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. To be a success a republic must have a homogeneous people, and to do this it must have homogeneous schools.... I grow more and more opposed to [sectarian schools].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church.... We have a free choice, but at a price. ...We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Free verse leaves out the meter and makes up For the deficiency by church intoning.... Free verse, so called, is really cherished prose....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Devil begat darkness; darkness begat ignorance; ignorance begat error and his brethren; error begat free- will and presumption...; free-will begat works; works begat forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness begat transgression; transgression begat superstition; superstition begat satisfaction; satisfaction begat the mass-offering; the mass-offering begat the priest; the priest begat unbelief; unbelief begat hypocrisy; hypocrisy begat traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain begat Purgatory; Purgatory begat the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils begat church-livings; church-livings begat avarice; avarice begat swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity begat fulness; fulness begat rage; rage begat license; license begat empire and domination; domination begat pomp; pomp begat ambition; ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pia fraus offends the taste (the "piety") of the free spirit, who has "the piety of the search for knowledge," even more than ...the impia fraus. Here his profound lack of understanding for the church, a characteristic of the type "free spirit"Mhis unfreedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and... manifested very much in the same way. The Negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man. The few social privileges which the man gives the woman, he makes up to the Negro in civil rights. The woman may sit at the same table and eat with the white man; the free Negro may hold property and vote. The woman may sit in the same pew with the white man in church; the free Negro may enter the pulpit and preach. Now, with the black man's right to suffrage, the right unquestioned, even by Paul, to minister at the altar, it is evident that the prejudice against sex is more deeply rooted and unreasonably maintained than that against color ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between ...their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdson's done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching--all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith, and good works, and free grace, and preforeordestination, and I don't know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I understand that only the rich can be members of Dr. C---'s church. The Lord Christ, also, is therefore ineligible. I will remain... outside with Him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so it goes, back and forth, good church-members all, which means that their banter contains nothing off-color, and by the same... token, nothing that was coined later than the first batch of buffalo nickels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »