we cannot live without sunshine and water, neither can the germs of
disease.

It might well be that we are nothing more than "disease germs" in the
environment in which we live. The same basic construction by which they
live forms the same pattern upon which our life is built.

To nature the night is just as important as the day, and the life of the
germ we call disease is as important as the life of the body upon which
it feeds.

It follows the same law of life; it is born, reproduces and dies.

There are forms of life that live by night that are equally as favored
by nature as those which live by day.

Freaks of all kinds exist in nature--from the utterly ridiculous to the
terrifying monstrosities. This is proof of the lack of design in Nature
as far as man is concerned.

When man comes to the realization that he is not the "favorite" of God;
that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for
his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of nature as all
other forms of life, then, and not until then, will he understand that
he must rely upon himself, and himself alone, for whatever benefits he
is to enjoy; and devote his time and energies to helping himself and his
fellow men to meet the exigencies of life and to set about to solve the
difficult and intricate problems of living.

The recognition of a problem is the first step to its solution--

We are not "fallen" angels, nor were we "created" perfect.

On the contrary, we are the product of millions of years of an
unpurposed evolution.

We are the descendants and inheritors of all the defects of our
primitive ancestry--the evolution of the myriad forms of life from the
infinitesimal to the mammoth--from the worm to the dinosaur.

The most important step in the development of man is the recognition of
the fact that we are born without knowledge, and that the acquisition of
knowledge is a slow and painful process.

If all man needed upon earth was a "knowledge of God," then why the
necessity of establishing educational institutions?

Unless a child is taught to talk, it will never be able to speak the
language of our tongue. Without teaching the child the rudiments of
speech, he would be unable to communicate his thoughts to others.
Without proper training his "grunts" of expression would be meaningless,
and the only way he could express himself would be by the primitive
instinct of making signs and by pointing.

The brain ne