Harlow Shapley - Institute On Religion in An Age of Science

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“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
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“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this—that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made—not to understand—but to feel—as crime.”
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“Raise children for your old age as you would store up grain against famine.”
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“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
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