(4) Ignorance is the devil of the world. The destroyer-gods of the supernaturalistic interpretations of religion are symbols of this one. (5) Knowledge consists in knowing facts and truths. Every real fact and truth is a word of the only gospel which the world possesses. (6) A fact is something which matter, force and motion have unconsciously done, not what a god has consciously willed. There are no other facts. (7) A truth is a fact so interpreted that if it is lived it will contribute towards making the most of life. There are no other truths. (8) Hence the greatest people in the world are the scientists who discover facts, and the preachers who interpret them and persuade to their living. If you contend that mothers are greater than teachers, I shall agree with you on condition that you will admit that a mother is not really great unless she is a teacher. (9) The desire and effort to learn facts, interpret and live them constitute morality. (10) Morality is the greatest thing in the world, because it is all there is of real religion and politics. (11) But, paradoxical as it may seem, there is one thing which is greater than the greatest thing in the world--freedom. (12) And the freedom which is greater than morality consists in the liberty to learn, interpret, live and teach facts, without which liberty a man may be a non-moral child, or an immoral hypocrite, but he cannot be the possessor of the pearl of great price--morality, without which human life is not worth the living or even possible. II. My political faith is summed up in the following creed of twelve articles: (1) As the universe in general is self-existing, self-sustaining and self-governing, so man in particular, who is but one among the transitory, cosmic phenomena, has all of the potentialities of his own life within himself, so that every man can say of himself what the makers of Jesus had him say: I and my Father are one. (2) Man has set a far-off and high-up goal of an ideal civilization for himself, and is finding the way to it by his own discoveries, and is walking therein by his own strength, so that he is not in the least indebted to any of the gods of the supernaturalistic interpretations of religion, either for the setting of the goal, or for what progress he has made towards it. (3) Nor is humanity indebted to its outstanding representatives for the advance in the way of civilization, as is evident from the fact that, but for the gods, it would have long since been far beyond the point where the English-German war would have been within the range of possibilities, and these gods are the gifts to a blind humanity by its blind leaders.