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WHICH WAY?
"...One way is to think -- to investigate, to observe, and follow, the light, of reason. The other way is to believe, to accept, to follow, to deny the authority of your own senses, your own reason, and bow down to those who are impudent enough to declare that they know.
One way is to live for the benefit of your fellowmen -- for
your wife and children -- to make those you love happy and to
shield them from the sorrows of life.
The other way is to live for ghosts, goblins, phantoms and
gods with the hope that they will reward you in another world.
One way is to enthrone reason and rely on facts, the other to
crown credulity and live on faith.
One way is to walk by the light within -- by the flame that
illumines the brain, verifying all by the senses -- by touch and sight and sound.
The other way is to extinguish the sacred light and follow
blindly the steps of another.
One way is to be an honest man, giving to others your thought,
standing erect, intrepid, careless of phantoms and hells.
The other way is to cringe and crawl, to betray your nobler
self and to deprive others of the liberty that you have not the
courage to enjoy..." |
