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Brisbane, Arthur, 1864-1936

"Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers"


The universality of the gambling instinct in human beings is
certainly worthy of our study.

NO MAN UNDERSTANDS IRON
HOW CAN WE HOPE TO UNDERSTAND GOD?
Is there laughter in heaven--or can nothing move the eternal
heavenly calm?
If mirth exists among the perpetually blissful, how must the
angels laugh when in idle moments they listen to our speculations
concerning the Divinity? They peer down at us as we look at ants
dragging home a fragment of dead caterpillar. They hear us say
things like this:
If God exists, why does He not reveal himself to ME?
How could God exist before He created the world? Force cannot
exist or demonstrate its existence without matter. How could a
creator exist except with creation around him?
Where did He live before He made heaven?
If He is all-powerful, could He in five seconds make a six
months' old calf? If He made it in five seconds it would not be
six months old.
Nonsense more subtle comes from the educated, from those who know
enough to be preposterous in a pretentious way.
Hear the wise man:
God does not exist, because I cannot prove His existence: I can
prove everything else. With my law of gravitation I point to a
speck in space and say: "You'll find a new planet there," and
you find it.


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