Quotes of Joseph McCabe - somelinesforyou

“ The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young — the older are mostly driven to his gatherings — but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young — the older are mostly driven to his gatherings — but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces the finger of God in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God… ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces the finger of God in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces the finger of God in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a bundle of facts. Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the law because they act in that way. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young — the older are mostly driven to his gatherings — but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces the finger of God in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces the finger of God in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a bundle of facts. Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the law because they act in that way. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces the finger of God in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God… ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young — the older are mostly driven to his gatherings — but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young — the older are mostly driven to his gatherings — but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young — the older are mostly driven to his gatherings — but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God… ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts - a bundle of facts. Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the law because they act in that way. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young — the older are mostly driven to his gatherings — but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ Hitler is a rotten speaker: raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young — the older are mostly driven to his gatherings — but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. ”

- Joseph McCabe

“ The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress. ”

- Joseph McCabe
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