"The history of Christ is contained in records which exhibit contradictions that cannot be reconciled, imperfections that would greatly detract from even admitted human compositions, and erroneous principles of morality that would hardly have found a place in the most incomplete system of the philosophers of Greece and Rome."--Rev. Dr. Giles. "That any human creature, be he peer or peasant, man or woman, pauper or millionaire, should be visited with pains and penalties because of his or her speculative opinion on a subject whereon but few even of professing Christians are agreed, is a bitter satire on our vaunted liberty. My Lords, it is the spirit which lighted the martyr-fires of Smithfield, and led to the stake gallant and noble souls such as Bruno. It is a noble; company you are placing me in, my Lords, and I shall thank you for it."--_Ibid_. "Who shall number the patient and earnest seekers after truth, from the days of Galileo until now, whose lives have been embittered, and their good name blasted, by the mistaken zeal of Bibliolators? Who shall count the host of weaker men whose sense of truth has been destroyed in the effort to harmonize impossibilities--whose life has been wasted in the attempt to force the generous new wine of Science into the old bottles of Judaism, compelled by the outcry of the same strong party." _Prof. Huxley_. "Thou shalt not kill, even the smallest creature. "Thou shalt not appropriate to thyself what belongs to another. "Thou shah not infringe the laws of chastity. "Thou shalt not lie. "Thou Shalt not calumniate. "Thou shalt not speak of injuries. "Thou shalt not excite quarrels, by repeating the words of others. "Thou shalt not hate." --_Moral Precepts from Buddhistic Sacred Books._ "I discern in matter * * the promise and potency of all forms and qualities of life."--_Tyndall_ "A poor man, in our day, has many gods foisted on him; and big voices bid him 'Worship or be --------' in a menacing and confusing manner. What shall he do? By far the greater part of said gods, current in the public, whether canonized by Pope or Populas, are mere dumb asses and beautiful prize-oxen--nay, some of them, who have articulate faculty, are devils instead of Gods. A poor man that would save his soul alive is reduced to the sad necessity of _sharply trying his gods_ whether they are divine or not, which is a terrible pass for mankind, and lays an awful problem upon each man."--_Tomas Carlyle_