““Oh God, thou art the stagnant environment’.12 All is quackery: these religions, whose very existence depends on their failure, are full of misery and confusion. They have only multiplied arguments, and are as full of argument as they are evil. They are crowded with non-essentials, yet are so barren of any free pleasure in either this life or another, that I cannot uphold their doctrine. Their criterion for enjoyment is death! It would be better for a man to renounce them all, and embrace his own invincible purpose. He cannot go any further than that, and this is his only real release. By it he may put his pleasure where he will, and find satisfaction.””
