Top Ten Best Joseph McCabe Quotes & Written Works
Joseph Martin McCabe was a popularized author of numerous books.The Top Ten
1 An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
2 The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
3 A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a "bundle of facts." Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the "law" because they act in that way.
4 The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament.They were familiar in the Jewish schools&to all the Pharisees,long before the time of Christ,as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth—Egyptian,Babylonian,&Persian,Greek,&Hin
5 Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles,eccentricities,tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past.It is the only theory of morals that does.And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical & social struggle today...
6 What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.
7 If..1 of these gentlemen is correct..believer..is right..essential truth for man..real drama of life,in comparison with..secular story of..race,is a puppet-show&..unfolding of..universe is a triviality,is..dialogue of..immortal soul&..eternal God.
8 Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens—great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently—but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is.
9 No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.
10 Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
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