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Author : Smith Orlando Jay
Title : The agreement between science and religion
Year : 1906

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We are deeply interested in the governments, local, state and national, under which we live, in their laws and regulations, in the protection and other advantages which they give to us, and in the duties which they exact from us. To a larger degree we are interested in the sovernment of the universe to which we are subject without conscious choice of our own. If we do not like the community in which we. live, we may remove to another, and we may get definite information concerning that other before making the removal. We may go east, west, north or south; to Canada, to Europe or to the antipodes. But the government of the universe does not grant to us the privilege of removal or expatriation, for there is no other universe to go to. Even if we suffer annihilation in death, we go nowhere, nol elsewhere. Our fathers, as far back as history or fancy can carry us, were subjects of this universe, and governed by precisely the same natural laws that govern us, as our descendants'will be, and as the life in the remotest planets must be, forever. We may alter or improve our man-made laws and systems of government. We may exercise the npt of protest or of revolution. ...