Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw.... They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with sim...ple popular practices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That the corruption of the best things produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, b...y the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,... on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of our ...most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But superstition, like belief, must die, And what remains when disbelief has gone?... Grass, weedy pavement, brambles, buttress, sky,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Be careful what you do, Or Mumbo-Jumbo, god of the Congo,... And all of the other Gods of the Congo, Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »