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All political progress has been the removal of forced and artificial relations among men, and the establishment of natural relations. Democracy is a search for natural leaders and the rights and privileges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood.

— John Burroughs The Light of Day (1900)

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The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.

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We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.

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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.

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