“I BELIEVE in a chaotic nebula, self-existent evolver of heaven and earth; and in the differentiation of this original homogeneous mass. Its first begotten product which was self-formed into separate worlds, divided into land and water, self-organized into plants and animals, reproduced in like species, further developed into higher orders; and finally refined, rationalized, and perfected in man. He descended from the monkey, ascended to the philosopher, and sitteth down in the rights and customs of civilization under the laws of a developing sociology. From thence he shall come again, by the disintegration of the culminated heterogeneousness, back into the original homogeneousness of chaos.
“I believe in the wholly impersonal absolute, the wholly un-Catholic church, the disunion of the saints, the survival of the fittest, the persistence of force, the dispersion of the body, and in death everlasting.”—The Independent.