Joseph McCabe QUOTES

1 " The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth — Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu. "

― Joseph McCabe , Sources of the Morality of the Gospels

3 " The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. "

― Joseph McCabe , The Existence Of God

5 " {McCabe on the influential scientist Luther Burbank}

His magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America and left him a comparatively poor man, is well known. His own simple account of his discoveries runs to 12 volumes and is incomplete. I was one of the few men whom he admitted to his house in Santa Rosa in the few months before he died and I found him advanced even beyond the vague Emersonian theism of his earlier years. He agreed to see me, he said, though he was tired and ill, because of his admiration of my work as a rationalist. He had just raised a storm by a public declaration that he did not believe in a future life, and his biographer Wilbur Hale repeats this. "

― Joseph McCabe , A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Medieval and Modern Freethinkers

7 " An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. "

― Joseph McCabe ,