Less Than Fifteen Per Cent

Every Child Should Have Mud Pies, Grasshoppers, Water Bugs, Tadpoles, Frogs, Mud Turtles, Elderberries, Wild Strawberries, Acorns, Chestnuts, Trees To Climb. Brooks To Wade, Water Lilies, Woodchucks, Bats, Bees, Butterflies, Various Animals To Pet, Hayfields, Pine-cones, Rocks To Roll, Sand, Snakes, Huckleberries And Hornets; And Any Child Who Has Been Deprived Of These Has Been Deprived Of The Best Part Of Education.

Science Is The Only Savior.

Although I Went To College As A Youth, I Never Considered It Necessary To Steep Oneself In Academic Learning, In Order To Learn How To Think. I Welcome A Fair And Square, Open And Above-board Fight On Any Subject, Including This, But I Despise A Man Who Sneaks Around Under A Cloak Or Cover Of Any Society Or Clique To Strike His Blows.

And To Think Of This Great Country In Danger Of Being Dominated By People Ignorant Enough To Take A Few Ancient Babylonian Legends As The Canons Of Modern Culture. Our Scientific Men Are Paying For Their Failure To Speak Out Earlier. There Is No Use Now Talking Evolution To These People. Their Ears Are Stuffed With Genesis.

The Idea That A Good God Would Send People To A Burning Hell Is Utterly Damnable To Me. I Don't Want To Have Anything To Do With Such A God. But While I Cannot Conceive Of Such A God, I Do Recognize The Existence Of A Great Universal Power - A Power Which We Cannot Even Begin To Comprehend And Might As Well Not Attempt To. It May Be A Conscious Mind, Or It May Not. I Don't Know. As A Scientist I Should Like To Know, But As A Man, I Am Not So Vitally Concerned.