Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study. - James George Frazer

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

It is probably not too much to say that the hope of progress--moral and intellectual as well as material--in the future is bound up with the fortunes of science, and that every obstacle placed in the way of scientific discovery is a wrong to humanity.