“The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.” ReligiousLossRaceStepsAtheismPositive AtheismMaturityCivilizedPortionsReligious FaithChildishness Book:Letters of Charles Eliot Norton Source: Letters of Charles Eliot Norton
“The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.” ThinkingMenFallVoiceFreedomSilenceLibertyStepsCourageDutyNeededCitizensPressesSilentCommandAppealsProtestWarningPulpitGood CitizenClamorBidding Book:Letters of Charles Eliot Norton Source: Letters of Charles Eliot Norton
