There is no tradition of progress; but the whole human race has a tradition of the Fall.

Amusingly enough, indeed, the very dissemination of this idea is used against its authenticity.
Learned men literally say that this pre-historic calamity cannot be true because every race of mankind remembers it.

I cannot keep pace with these paradoxes.
And if we took the third chance instance, it would be the same; the view that priests darken and embitter the world.

I look at the world and simply discover that they don't.

Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air.
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.