re: Seconds anyone
Aubrey Matthews (paubrey@CASTLES.COM)
Sun, 9 Feb 1997 11:41:00 -0800
>Aubrey 2/3
>* Francis Bacon, an English philosopher and statesman: "A little philosophy
>inclines man to atheism; a depth of philosophy brings him to religion"
>Aubrey
>
>RJV 2/3
>And in with the other foot!
>
>"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to
> laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral
> virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts
> all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men."
> [Francis Bacon]
>
>"A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint."
> [Francis Bacon]
>
>-- R Jason Valentine ..ooOO miracle@procyon.com
And now I put the shoe where it belongs.
"I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the
Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."
[Francis Bacon On Atheism]
Aubrey
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