 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
But we have been getting too solemn. Superstitions are not always dark and cruel; often they add to the gaiety of life....
During prohibition, there was a sect which maintained that the communion service ought to be celebrated in whiskey, not in wine; this tenet gave them a legal right to a supply of hard liquor, and the sect grew rapidly.
Source: Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943)
Reprinted in: Unpopular Essays, 1950
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