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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

Factories for Turning Out

Factories for Turning Out

what are called trained free-thought people. They are "taken in" when young, and taught to believe that the Bible is a compilation of forgeries and falsehoods, a book full of immoralities and inconsistencies; and they are advised never to waste their time by reading it, for they are told nothing in it is worth the precious time it would require to master it. They are taught that the best books to read are, for instance—"The Origin of Species," by High Priest Darwin; and the works of Wallace, Spencer, Huxley, Haekel, Tyndal, Owen, Paine, Voltaire, &c. And they are instructed never to deviate from the broad path laid out by these leaders of independent and free-thinking people, and they seldom do. They are only allowed to grow as their leaders indicate the propriety of another step in the path of development. They are servile followers of these leaders of the thoughtful. They are "trusting" hearers. This is the foundation of their creed—writers and teachers who have no foundation for their own. Tell me these are the authors which a man reads and I will produce the measure of the breadth of his intellect; and will not hesitate to assert that he will grow more bigoted and stupid as grey hairs gather upon his sapient pate. All this is wrong. It is tyrannically cruel!

I wish to prevent the enslavement of the schools of our country to the tyranny of the leaders of loose thought. I entertain a desire to have every teacher surrounded by such