…that all ideas of right and wrong came from above; that conscience dropped from the clouds; that the darkness was filled with imps from perdition, and the day with angels from heaven; that souls had been breathed into man by Jehovah.

We know now what there is in this world that lives and breathes was produced here. Life was not imported. Mind is not an exotic. Of this planet man is a native. This world is his mother. The maker did not descend from the heavens. The maker was and is here. Matter and force in their countless forms, affinities and repulsions produced the living, breathing world.

In the brain of science the devils have never lived. There you will find no goblins, ghosts, wraiths or imps – no witches, spooks or sorcerers. There the supernatural does not exist. No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies or the anthropophagi – any more than he does in the Fountain of Youth, the Philosopher’s Stone, Perpetual Motion or Fiat Money.

There is the same difference between religion and science that there is between a madhouse and a university – between a fortune teller and a mathematician – between emotion and philosophy – between guess and demonstration.

– RGI