Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach supersti... 
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poe... 
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poe... 
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero storie... 
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. 
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. 
The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmaker... 
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argue... 
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantas... 
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantasti... 
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. 
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. 
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. 
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. 
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions. 
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