If only people freed themselves from their beliefs in all kinds
of Ormuzds, Brahmas, Sabbaoths, and their incarnation as Krishnas
and Christs, from beliefs in Paradises and Hells, in
reincarnations and resurrections, from belief in the interference
of the Gods in the external affairs of the universe, and above
all, if they freed themselves from belief in the infallibility of
all the various Vedas, Bibles, Gospels, Tripitakas, Korans, and
the like, and also freed themselves from blind belief in a
variety of scientific teachings about infinitely small atoms and
molecules and in all the infinitely great and infinitely remote
worlds, their movements and origin, as well as from faith in the
infallibility of the scientific law to which humanity is at
present subjected: the historic law, the economic laws, the law
of struggle and survival, and so on--if people only freed
themselves from this terrible accumulation of futile exercises of
our lower capacities of mind and memory called the 'Sciences',
and from the innumerable divisions of all sorts of histories,
anthropologies, homiletics, bacteriologics, jurisprudences,
cosmographies, strategies--their name is legion--and freed
themselves from all this harmful, stupifying ballast--the simple
law of love, natural to man, accessible to all and solving all
questions and perplexities, would of itself become clear and
obligatory.



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