We boast our emancipation from many superstitions but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
So what, so I've got a smile onBut it's hiding the quiet superstitions in my head
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
All people have their blind side - their superstitions and I have heard her declare, under the rose, that hearts were her favourite suit.
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery
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