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Any fool can write learned language. The vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it.

Once the...idea of a total difference...between man and beast has been abandoned, then no argument for experiments on animals can be found which is not also an argument for experiments on inferior men. If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we're backing our side in the struggle for existence, it's only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies or capitalists for the same reasons.

Combatants always tend to imagine that the war is further on that it really is.

"An increased interest in [Christianity], or even a growing measure of intellectual assent to it, is a very different thing from the conversion of England or even of a single soul. Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural."

You can’t judge Christianity simply by comparing the product in (those) two people; you would need to know what kind of raw material Christ was working on in both cases.