13. Although God has given man a 14. That woman is man's equal and revelation, there is great natural companion--exists for him uncertainty as to what he meant only in the sense in which he to say on several subjects of exists for her. great importance. 15. That slavery, polygamy, and 14. That woman is man's inferior despotism are evils whenever and and subordinate, was made for his wherever they exist. gratification and convenience, while man was made for himself 16. That man should attend to the and the glory of God. affairs of this world, and, contrary to the notion of Jesus, 15. That God has approved and should take "thought for the sanctioned polygamy, slavery, and morrow." despotism. 17. That evil is due to natural 16. That man should take no causes. Man can gradually remove thought for the morrow. He should the evils that afflict him by pattern after the lilies of the becoming acquainted with his field. nature, relations, and surroundings. 17. That man's ills and sufferings are ascribable largely 18. Jesus was probably a reformer, to the immediate agency of a a "come-outer," an "Infidel" of his personal, malicious Devil--a time. We can esteem him as a being of extended presence, of benefactor without worshiping him almost infinite knowledge, of as a God. great strategy, and immense power. 19. The present is better than the past, and the golden age of the 18. That Jesus was God Almighty world is in the future. incased in human flesh. 19. That the golden age of the earth was in the past. B. F. Underwood. "Safest to Believe." It has often been argued that credulity is safer than skepticism--that "it is safest to believe;" inasmuch as if a man believes in heaven and hell, and there be no such places, he is, if no gainer, at least no loser; whereas the Infidel may lose, and cannot gain. Upon the same principle, it were safest to believe all the religions of the world at once--Christian, Mohammedan, Jewish, Hindoo, Confucian, and all the rest; because it is but insuring the matter by halves to trust to one only. If Allah be not the only God and Mahomet be an imposter, there is no harm done and nothing lost; and if there be not a paradise in another world, there has been a pleasant dream of anticipated joys in this.