In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves.
Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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