When I seemed to be irritable or sad my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight and then say 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older I've realized just how smart Knight was.
But strictly speaking this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men...
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was...
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion and dethrones...
Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused...
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell...
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do...
