It permits us to enjoy
this liberty without danger of infringing upon the similar liberty of
our fellow men, or of injuring and curtailing the freedom of the next
generation. It shows us that we need not seek in the amassing of worldly
wealth, not in the illusion of some extra-terrestrial Heaven or earthly
Utopia of a remote future the road to human development. The Kingdom of
Heaven is in a very definite sense within us. Not by leaving our body
and our fundamental humanity behind us, not by aiming to be anything but
what we are, shall we become ennobled or immortal. By knowing ourselves,
by expressing ourselves, by realizing ourselves more completely than
has ever before been possible, not only shall we attain the kingdom
ourselves but we shall hand on the torch of life undimmed to our
children and the children of our children.
(1) Quoted in the National Catholic Welfare Council
Bulletin: Vol. II, No. 5, p. 21 (January, 1921).
(2) Quoted in daily press, December 19, 1921.
(3) H. C. Lea: History of Sacerdotal Celibacy
(Philadelphia, 1967).
(4) Eugenics Review, January 1921.
(5) Fabian Tract No. 131.
CHAPTER X: Science the Ally
"There is but one hope. Ignorance, poverty, and vice
must stop populating the world. This cannot be done by
moral suasion. This cannot be done by talk or example.
This cannot be done by religion or by law, by priest
or by hangman.
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