Robert Ingersoll speaks
May 16th, 2008, 5:35 am · Post a Comment · posted by fsherman
Log cartoonist Dill Beaty has an exhibit up in Destin Library (along with his wife’s and daughters’ works) that includes a painting inspired by Robert Ingersoll, the “great agnostic” and champion of secularism in the 19th century. That prompted me to post this quote from Ingersoll:
“Secularism teaches us to be good here and now. I know nothing better than goodness. Secularism teaches us to be just here and now. It is impossible to be juster than just. Secularism has no ‘castles in Spain.’ It has no glorified fog. It depends upon realities, upon demonstrations; and its end is to make this world better every day — to do away with poverty and crime, and to cover the world with happy and contented homes.”
