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must be believed! And all for the benefit of 

 religion and rulers ! And what a peculiar logic ! 

 Fancy the Socratic method in the role of the 

 invincible sword, which will lay open the igno- 

 rance of all objectors to religion, and remember 

 that no religion in the world could stand the 

 test of that method ! 



This, then, was the mighty outcome of two 

 thousand years of philosophy since the time of 

 Demokritos that religions were considered safe, 

 and the states defended by them secure, because 

 it could not be proven by experience that a god 

 existed and that the human soul was immortal; 

 that the mass of the people could never ascertain 

 the truth of these things by their own unaided 

 faculties, but must believe them upon the word 

 of authorities! Surely, the mountain need not 

 have labored through 500 pages of gold-brick 

 science to bring forth such a mouse ! 



Of course, Kant had spoken the truth, when he 

 said that theology must be believed. But what a 

 strange fact, that all other schools of thought, 

 especially the natural sciences and psychologies, 

 should be compelled, under penalty of immediate 

 ridicule, to demonstrate every iota of their 

 theories by irrefutable evidence, while the cham- 

 pions of religion should be privileged to fling 



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