An Atmosphere of Freedom

that while he sees no "fact inconsistent with Moses," he will not be compelled to hide Moses from the presence of his enquiring pupils; and that it will not be the worse for him for having produced Moses to be read and examined by his scholars. I want to see an "eternal divorce" between truth and falsehood—between reality and sham. I would feel ashamed to be connected with a system of Education which teaches assumptions in the place of facts, that sets up a theory which casts a blindness, or which even tends to obscure the mental vision of youth, Or cast a network over the aspiring mind. Let fair freedom have her unfettered way; and let her bind and banish superstition. Religion is not averse to facts. It is one of the most indestructible facts of the world's history. There may be no religion in mathematics; but there is certainly mathematics in religion. Religion is full of botany, astronomy, biology, and being itself the purest science, it embraces all others within its encircling arms. It is the pivot of all sciences. It has nothing to do with superstition, but facts are its pillars.